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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

End of an era

Finished knitting Faina's scarf on Saturday, blocked and fringed it on Sunday. My Christmas knitting is over. For my first lace project, I think I did good. It's a great pattern, and I could see making it again, but not anytime soon! It was an easy

Knitting news

Winter Knitty is up! I would like to make the pocket creatures (minus the vile lavender) and the Thuja ribbed socks. The other sock pattern, Pomatomus looks worth a try, but I'd have to go up a couple of needle sizes to get gauge. The Mrs Beeton gauntlets

Priorities

Priority #1: Finish the Tiger socks for Rox so I can cast on with the Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks That Rock in Harvest Moon and make wonderful socks: Priority #1: Finish Faina's Scarf so I can cast on with this Koigu PPPM and make a gorgeous neck

Camera for sale

FOR SALE Olympus CAMEDIA D 460 Zoom 1.3 Megapixel (BUNDLE) This is the camera all the photos on this site were taken with, it's easy to use, still got a year of its warranty left, original box, manual, cables, all the bits and pieces.

Compliments?

Went to a baby shower for a work colleague yesterday. Why do people think that the highest compliment for a knitted gift is "You made that? It looks like you bought it in a store!" No it doesn't look like a store baby hat. It'

When Squirrels Attack

Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog'. Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report. Passers-by were reportedly too late to stop the attack by the black squirrels in a village in the far east, which reportedly

Digging a ditch

It must be winter. I zipped the lining back into my jacket today. There were some feeble snow flurries yesterday which dumped a whole cup of snow over St Louis. There was ice on my car roof this morning. Bring back the 40C/104F heat! Bring back the sunshine! I&

Leftovers

Picked up one ball of yarn from Myers House at the weekend while Hubby was working on his Thanksgiving sermon for the old folks home. It was Classic Elite Bazic Wool in an orange sherbet colour for the leftovers blanket. The blanket is going to be made from six strips,

More yarn

This is my first ever skein of Koigu PPPM, colour 622, ordered from the Patternworks catalogue. I was expecting it to be more red and less pink, but I think this will work. I really like the dark purple/blue strands. It's going to be another neck scarf,

Winning Author!

Got my novel validated, got my certificate downloaded, and got this too: And on Novel Length Validation Day, look what was waiting in my mailbox: One skein of Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks That Rock, purchased from The Fold as my prize for winning NaNoWriMo. I am impressed with Toni&

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