Tag: knitting
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Creative goals 2026 mid-year checkin
Time for a mid-year check in on how my Creative Goals 2026 are progressing! I’m a bit later than usual because I was busy doing some other creative projects at exactly the 6 month exact-middle-of-the-year point, which honestly feels like a good sign. 1. Set up my new creative space This has been such…
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Thawing April 2026, Ink & Life & Space Dragons
We’re in the tail end of winter according to the birds, though there’s still chunks of snow in the shade and every time we think it might be warm for good we get a little bonus freezing rain. Still, it’s nice to feel the change of the seasons even when it feels like only a…
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Chilly March 2026, Life & Ink & Knitting
It’s March! Traditionally, February is the month where I used to feel the worst when I lived in Canada, likely because it’s when you’re sick of winter and the dark, but honestly it didn’t seem so bad this year, possibly because I wasn’t in winter in December so I haven’t really gotten sick of it. …
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Fiber Goals 2025 mid-year check-in
This year’s goals were as follows: We’re a bit more than halfway through the year so let’s see where we’re at! Revisit Old Goals Started strong in January by finishing up a rainbow shawl that had been on the needles for quite some time: I’d intended to release the pattern since I had an old…
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Fiber Goals 2025
This is my 10th year setting “fiber goals” as a fun way to direct my crafting for the year. I’ve come to feel like setting goals around creativity and joy and focusing on accomplishing things I want to do is important. Especially in contrast to a lot of traditional new year’s goals that are kind…
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Fiber Goals 2024: How did I do?
My 2024 fiber goals were as follows: I already did a mid-year 2024 writeup so I’m just going to talk about the second half of the year here. Gift yarn I finished the lighthouse shawl: And I started in on a pair of socks with a funny colourway called “Introverts Unite” that apparently I haven’t…
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Fiber Goals from years past
This year is the 10th year I’ll be doing fiber goals, and I wanted to revisit some previous year’s goals, so I’m starting by making myself a mega post with all of them to contemplate.
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Finish or Frog Along Wrap-up
I still spend more time knitting than using fountain pens but you wouldn’t know it from the blog posts I write! So let’s do a bit of an update. In September / October a group of fediverse folk do “Finish or Frog Along” (formerly Fall Finish Along, but now with a better name for people…
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Travel Gear Review: Midori Clip Ruler
I picked up this ruler to go with my travel notebook. I didn’t use it the way I thought I would, but it found a niche that made it fit perfectly into my travel stationery setup. What is it? A metal ruler that also acts as a clip bookmark and a stencil. Link: https://www.jetpens.com/Midori-Clip-Ruler-Copper-Daily-Life/pd/29899 What…
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Estimating my knitting speed
It’s occasionally useful to know how long a knitting project will take me: When do I need to start a gift for it to be ready in time? How much yarn should I bring on a trip? So I decided to make a personal estimate I could refer to when I wanted to make a…
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Fiber goals 2024: mid year check-in
I’m a bit overdue for a look at this year’s fiber goals. They were as follows: Gift yarn I thought gift yarn would be an easy one, but I’ve hardly used any! When I started this goal I wrote down 5 skeins/sets in hopes of inspiring myself to make plans, but so far I’ve only…
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Finchley Graft written instructions
I learned the Finchley Graft recently. It makes the same fabric as the more common Kitchener graft, but without the extra setup/end steps that make it stick out at the edges when used on, say, a sock toe. Unfortunately, I haven’t done it enough times to actualy have it memorized, and when I look it…