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… but, thankfully, no fire in the sky. This is -10C air over salt water.

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Merry merry!  Best wishes of the season.  It’s certainly been merry here. An important point about message fragmentation.  Here are 2 very different messages, each starting with the same first chunk: We found the roasting pan we thought we’d given away. We found the roasting pan we thought we’d given away, but it’s not in [...]

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Perhaps — just perhaps — I am learning. I have previously observed, on more than one occasion, that I really should swatch for colours and pattern realities before I embark on a project. I’m now playing with some ideas for a multicolour, textured sweater in Rowan Cocoon (chunky merino/kid mohair).  I bought the yarn with [...]

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Last week, I did my Christmas (cookie) marathon, constructing and baking 4 different batches of cookies through the week, and another 4 on Saturday.  It’s not like there’s  a lack of other things going on this month — I just broke them up into stages and wove the different stages (dough, shaping, resting, baking, decorating) [...]

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Now this is obscure:  the 1904 date system in Excel. I was working with a spreadsheet in which I was trying to create a projection of a larger spreadsheet.  I.e., I want to be able to share just a portion of the larger spreadsheet — so I copied the relevant cells from the larger workbook [...]

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Let me explain something.  This: is a cheese plate. And this: is a wanna-brie . Opening up the familiar wood box, I was astonished to find a sealed plastic tub inside.  Think of the “hankie” scene from the opening of “The Commitments”. Look more closely at the labelling — from the country that has to [...]

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I have found one sure fire way to make 3 lbs of butter seem like not much of a big deal — and it has to do with Christmas cookies. For whatever reason, even as there is no time for (m)any of the usual sorts of holiday things, such as decorating our home, I hang [...]

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The other day, DH approached me with a box of yarn in hand, prompting me to retreat and utter some sailorly language.  The attentive will note that this is not my expected reaction to yarn; certainly, it was not what DH might have expected. The problem was that it was a box that had been [...]

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Okay, so here is the revised pattern, instantiated in the new sock: The 2-knit-stitch welt is progressing properly; the stockinette panels are oddly parallelogrammed, and the moss stitch is setting up in modest diamond shapes… I think it mostly works.  I think the next time I’ll keep the stockinette panels diamond-shaped, and let the moss [...]

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After I’d done these “diamond moss stitch” socks, I chided myself for not having adjusted Lesley Stanfield’s stitch pattern (for the diamonds) to work in the round.  You can see the “disconnect” between the segments of welt here: I decided to make that adjustment and use the same motif in the current sock project (which [...]

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No, not a dromedary — camel & silk blend (YUMMM!) from Hand Maiden Yarns (“Camelspin”, 70% Silk, 30% Camel), purchased at Cricket Cove in Blacks Harbour, NB. I don’t know how many times we’ve driven by that store and not been able to stop in — either we’re rushing to catch the ferry to Grand [...]

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