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<\/p>\nI’m sorry… that’s not a very imaginative blog post title, especially
\nafter more than a year’s absence from the blog.<\/p>\n
But, it’s a pretty accurate description of my reaction when I finally
\nfinished the “seven year sweater”!<\/p>\n
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\nYou There are more pictures and details on my Yarn One of the more fun recent projects was the Morehouse Farms Hedgehog Knit the bulk of that project while attending ITU telecommunications <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m sorry… that’s not a very imaginative blog post title, especially after more than a year’s absence from the blog. But, it’s a pretty accurate description of my reaction when I finally finished the “seven year sweater”! You last saw … Continue reading
\nlast saw this as a work in progress <\/a>in November of 2008. At
\nthat point, I had gotten far enough into it to understand some of the
\nerrors I’d made as a neophyte designer. I contemplated
\nripping it out and repurposing the yarn<\/a>. But, I let it lounge
\nin its project bag for a while, then I took it out and worked on it in
\na “I must knit 2 rows of this before I can knit what I really want to,
\ntoday” kind of way, and then I sucked it up and just knit the rest of
\nit. And mattress-seamed the sleeves and sides.
\nAnd it even fits! Which is, in itself, kind of a miracle.
\nAlthough my arms have hardly changed length, the rest of me has been
\nseveral different sizes in the 7 years since I designed this sweater!<\/p>\n
\nGallery page<\/a>. And, yes, there are many more projects posted
\nthere — although I fell of the blogging bandwagon pretty seriously,
\nI’ve been diligent about keeping the gallery up to date. So, you
\ncan see what I’ve been up to. Amount of work travel is directly
\nproportional to the relative percentage of smaller projects (socks,
\nshawls) knit. Sigh. Yes, I could probably figure out how
\nmany sock projects it takes to become a United Airlines million miler.<\/p>\n
\nmitten, which I knit using Green Mountain Spinnery Alpaca Elegance.<\/p>\n![\"hedgehog](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/2013\/Yee-Haw%21\/IMG_4598-small.jpg\")
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\ntreaty meetings. It’s a good thing the Alpaca Elegance is so
\nenticing to work with — it kept my sharp, pointy knitting needles at
\nwork, and not stabbing myself (or someone else!) for the stultifyingly exciting<\/span> time it was,
\nto borrow a phrase the other half coined for the meetings.<\/p>\n