I learned an important lesson this weekend – all things are possible if you actually *read* the instructions.  On attempt # 2 when I ran out of stitches before I ran out of pattern – that was because I didn’t *read* the directions – I glanced at them, assumed I knew what I was doing, …

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Dang it! Dang it! Dang it! 2nd attempt and somehow I ran out of stitches before I ran out of pattern! How does that happen! And I’d done that row right on the burgundy version so I know it’s not the pattern. This screw up is all me, baby! Dang it! Dang it! Dang it!

I finished the adult version of the Bernat Ruffled Baby Hat – you can find the baby version here. Not too happy with it but it does have promise.  The shaping just needs some tweaking I think (either that or I should have just made it smaller around and longer – heck if I know …

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Apparently there is a correlation between knitting and that saying about the forest and the trees… Remember how I mysteriously put my cables on the back of my Pasa Doble shaw? Well I took my knitting and the pattern to the wonderful folks at Knit Wits in Evansville, Indiana (a-not-so-local-yarn-store) and begged for help. The …

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I started the Pasa Doble Shaw/Wrap pattern from the Deco pattern book by Louisa Harding this weekend. For some reason knitting that little baby hat over the Thanksgiving holiday has given me insane confidence in my knitting skills and this wrap pattern is a doozy. Two words people – Bobbles and Cables. I have lost my mind. …

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