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Cathartic Ink

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Monthly Archives / July 2006

Cultured Milk

I don’t like milk. I never have. I think that this has been exacerbated by the fact that cow’s milk tastes weird to me. We raised dairy goats when I was a kid and so we had raw goat’s milk and only drank cow’s milk if we happened to run out. At any rate, I read more

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Cart Before the Horse?

My doppelganger made a comment about my shawl [which looks very close to the same as it did the other day so I’m not going to post a new photo] and how it’s coming before the dress. Folks might have also noticed that the shoes came before the dress too. It’s primarily been out of read more

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Beginning the Process

So, I’ve begun my wedding shawl. It’s Madli’s Shawl from Interweave Knits Summer 2004. It’s a long, lacy, rectangular shawl with lots of fun “nupps” which are kind of a pain to knit, but I like how they look. I started it three days ago and have gotten through the first border and two repeats read more

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I’m in Love With a Shoe.

I have located the perfect shoes for the wedding. Granted, they’re on sale now which means that the color I want will likely be gone before I can get to a Fluevog store to try them on. I’m hesitant to order them online without trying them on because the return policy for sale items is read more

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Shark Attack

Some yarn I spun recently. 3.5 ounces of merino, approximately 143 yards. Dyed in the Shark colorway from The Spunky Eclectic.  

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