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Getting Back to Knitting Classes at Garden Home

Aug 23

Posted by TessM in Classes, It's All About Me | No Comments

Whew!  I just finished updating my sadly-neglected knitting class spreadsheet — including the dates for the next THREE terms at Garden Home Rec Center!

house being paintedI admit, I haven't been doing much teaching, or even knitting,  this summer — just some bits here and there.  The Garden Home classes always take a break over the summer, because there are so many other things to do here in beautiful Oregon, at least when the sun finally decides to shine.  But unfortunately, the spring term didn't fill, so I've basically just been lazy since the start of the year.

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There, I Fixed It

Jun 6

Posted by TessM in FO Files | No Comments

OK, I'll be the first to admit that the last post was perhaps a bit premature.  Hey, I was excited to have gotten something finished.

Thus it was that, after really looking at the difference between my clown-like collar and the original collar, I decided to go back and take a look at the instructions to see just where the hell it went off the rails.

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Green Mohair FO

Jun 3

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Finally, I got something finished!

green mohair sweater green mohair sweater

These pics were taken before I washed and blocked it, and the sleeves seemed a little on the short side at the time — but fortunately I was able to block them out a little longer.  :D

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Gus is Ready for Sunday!

Feb 3

Posted by TessM in But Is It Art?, Knit Funny | 4 Comments

So my sister — who, as you may know, is primarily responsible for starting my knitting career — lives in Chicago — where, as you may also know, they got completely socked in by snow yesterday.

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Not Exactly Juvenile, but Delinquent

Jun 23

Posted by TessM in It's All About Me, New Zealand | No Comments

Good heavens.  It’s been a week and a half.  I’m a delinquent blogger.

According to the thesaurus, you could also say, "behindhand, derelict, disregardful, heedless, inattentive, indifferent, lax, lazy, negligent, regardless, remiss, slack, thoughtless, uncaring, unmindful".

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I Can’t Make This Stuff Up

Nov 28

Posted by TessM in Sox Therapy | 7 Comments

OK, I believe I now have incontrovertible proof that the socks I am currently making trying to make for DH have some kind of curse upon them.

You may remember all the trials and tribulations that I went through — admittedly, some self-imposed — in getting this pair off the ground.  But, I finally bowed to the pressures of reality, and moved one of said socks onto a set of dpns in order to turn the heel, and cope with the alignment changes in the stitch pattern.

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Karla’s Gift

May 8

Posted by TessM in It's All About Me | No Comments

Earlier this year, one of my very good students & friends moved far, far away.  Very sad.  She is living somewhere warm & sunny now, so I’m not even sure what she’s going to knit from now on.

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Wrap Cardigan, Part 1 – design, yarn, gauge, math

Apr 19

Posted by TessM in PL: Wrap Cardigan | 2 Comments

Table of contents for Wrap Cardigan

  1. Wrap Cardigan, Part 1 – design, yarn, gauge, math
  2. Wrap Cardigan, Part 2 – whoops, I did it again
  3. Wrap Cardigan, Part 3 – let’s get this party started
  4. Wrap Cardigan, Part 4 – in which we fix some things
  5. Wrap Cardigan, Part 5 – let’s hear it for the sleeves
  6. Wrap Cardigan, Part 6 – closure

OK, I’m probably crazy to do this again after the last one, but here goes with another series of Playing Lessons.

KPS cardiganThis time, though, I’ll be designing the thing myself, so any issues will be mine and mine alone.  (However, this is not guaranteed to cut down on the drama factor.  More than likely, the opposite.)

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Latest & Greatest

Feb 19

Posted by TessM in FO Files, It's All About Me, Sox Therapy | 2 Comments

Admittedly, I haven’t written much in the past week (heck, I haven’t written anything).  But, I have an excellent excuse reason.  Actually, several reasons…

#1 reason is, I have a bad Continental knitting habit of using my right index finger to help out on each and every stitch.  I don’t actually need to use it — I can knit and purl without moving it at all, if I think about it.  As I say, it’s a bad habit, which means I do it more-or-less unconsciously.  I even demonstrate it to new Continental knitters in my classes as a great example of what not to do.

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FO: DH’s new green socks

Feb 7

Posted by TessM in FO Files, Sox Therapy | 3 Comments

Aaaaaand here they are, in all their glory:

FOsox

These socks comprise many of my favorite sock-knitting techniques to date.  I prefer techniques that work well and are easy to memorize, so for those of you who want to know the nuts & bolts, here’s a brief recap:

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Updates

Jan 30

Posted by TessM in It's All About the Blog, Not Knitting, Sox Therapy | 1 Comment

OK, it’s high time I wrote something new & exciting.  Hmmm…!

First, let me tell you that the site has gotten just a teensy bit better, with the addition of two new pages:  look up at the top, on the navigation bar, and you’ll see "Site Map" as well as "Knit Links".

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Hubby’s Socks and the Three Toes

Jan 15

Posted by TessM in Books, Sites, Mags, Sox Therapy | 2 Comments

Well, on Sunday evening (Sunday the 13th!) I finally cast on another pair of socks for DH.

The yarn is Lana Grossa "Meilenweit 6 fach" in a true solid dark green – his favorite color.  I like doing toe-up socks, so I don’t have to bother too much with a gauge swatch or any math or anything.  I figured I’d just increase until the toe was the right size, eh?

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The Queen of Green

Sep 30

Posted by TessM in It's All About Me | 1 Comment

You may have noticed – I like green.

Just about any shade of green really, even the ugly ones – with the possible exception of really light minty green. See, I’m a natural redhead, and it’s something I just can’t help. One of my personal slogans is,

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