To Let on Fair Isle

Thanks to Liberty’s Yarn for this great link…
Two homes, a small one story and a large “Laird’s” home for let on Fiar Isle, established 65 persons on a island in the Shetland’s only three miles long and a mile across. For only 300 English Pounds a year (that’s less than $600.00 US dollars) this [...]

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Newborn Hat in Baby Alpaca

Baby hat is finished…from natural Baby Alpaca, so soft and yummy. I believe I have enough to make those bootie/socks too. Then back to the baby sweater.
I’m planning a knitting weekend with a tough of housecleaning and rabbit grooming thrown in.

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Getting "Lost" with Baby Alpaca

With a baby shower for co-worker in one week, I was feeling up to a quick, simple project with a skein of Baby Alpaca in natural white. So soft, so lush. I need to do the crown on the baby hat and that should leave me with just enough to do a pair [...]

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Grand Granny Square

Grand Granny Recipe: Take many skeins of chunky acrylic (ones you will never make anything out of) from you stash…let stand at room temp. until you decide the crochet hook size you will need to use. Go to the Lion Brand Yarns site and print out the Grand Granny Square Afghan pattern…read directions [...]

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Poncho from Handspun

Here’s my Poncho..using the Elann.com pattern, Peruvian Collection Cuzco Poncho Pattern. I had made some handspun several years ago, very chunky and just right for this poncho. I could have used a bigger needle size, going up to US 17…but the US 15 worked just fine. Alex say’s they are out of [...]

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Do ya think?

Postponed in TexasThough, knitters are very tough and bounce back…I’m sure there may have been a few that tried to make it to the event.
My thoughts and prayers are with the folks in the area Hurricane Rita has come through and where it is destined. I truly cannot immagine having my house [...]

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Poncho Finished..

I finished the Poncho I started a week and half ago…or something like that. I blocked it tonight and it’s drying. Will photo pic it tomorrow. Started hat for neighbors buddy (the single guy thing) and the Quickie Baby Sweater from D-Made’s blog…in a pink cotton. Eyes are getting heavy…time for [...]

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Do you ever feel "Lost"…

I do…like tonight, when the season premier is on. The girls and I are looking forward to it. I totally ditched my vow to stick to what the WIPs I already have and finish them…working on the Mock Turkish Stitch Poncho from Elann.com. I’m almost done. Then a baby sweater for [...]

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Cluck cluck here…and a quack quack there

Aren’t they the cutest? Eggy is the Mom and the three look nothing like her. It’s enny, menny and mo. Mo is the total white headed one. Ahhh…to be a chicken…at least on our farm, would be the life.
Three male ducks are going to the Moriarty Estate Lake…ok, it’s a pond, [...]

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Farm Life September 18, 2005 

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