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I died today… and then went skating

Well, the weapons arrived in the post today – a pair of Sock Wars socks all the way from Canada from the lovely Dawn who made my demise a lot nicer by including a copy of Things I Learned from Knitting Whether I Wanted to or Not by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee. How generous is that! The [...]

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First anniversary coming up – win yarn

I’ve got yarn to show you and quite a bit of it. Wanna see? This little lot plus a little bit more got labelled, wrapped and addressed tonight to be posted out tomorrow. Sock Club yarns got posted out this week – international members on Tuesday and Wednesday and UK members on Saturday. Let me [...]

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Sock Wars III: Battle commences

I’m armed with my 2.75mm DPNs, have checked my gauge, wound my yarn and await my dossier with details of my target at noon tomorrow. Sock Wars III – the battle is (nearly) on. Though when I think I’m going to get any actual knitting done is another matter as the weekend consists of BBQ [...]

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Not another Chevron Scarf!

I’m all antsy at the moment and can’t settle down properly to any decent knitting. Sock Wars is looming and I don’t want to start anything in my queue until I get started on that. I read that many participants have read the gauge, selected the yarn etc. Nope – not got that far. Instead, [...]

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