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Truckle

Oh hey, remember these? I totally do! Or, more specifically, I remember the terrible terrible plague I had while I knit them.  Their working title when I was knitting them was zombie socks (as I was at least half dead as I made them).  But truckle (which means to yield out [...]

August 4, 2015|
Knit Wear Love (review and giveaway)

More TNNA goodies to share, this time it's the delightful Knit Wear Love: Foolproof Instructions for Knitting your Best-Fitting Sweaters Ever in the Styles you Love to Wear from Amy Herzog. You know how I always say I'll never knit a sweater?  Now part of that is because of my [...]

July 30, 2015|
Terms

Sock the second continues his slow but inevitable march toward the sock basket. We're nearing my favorite milestone of sock creation, which in my head is called 'Well and Truly Socklike.'  That's the point where I feel that if I hold the thing up, even a non-knitter should be able [...]

July 25, 2015|
Armored

I told you there would be some lacy business coming up, and you know I'm not the type to lead you astray (temptation, yes; astray, no)! I suppose the pattern on this one may be a tiny bit too small scale to truly scratch the lace itch, but the result [...]

July 22, 2015|
Proof

Do you know anyone who writes books?  If so, there's likely to come a day when a package arrives from their printer.  When the package comes, it's best to just stand quietly by and let them have a moment with it.  They're fairly heavily invested in the stuff in that [...]

July 20, 2015|
Increase Decrease (review & giveaway)

So that secret suspicion you had?  That feeling that maybe TNNA was an awful lot like a birthday party with lots of goody bags for everyone to take home?  Yeah, there's actually some truth to that!  One of the things that came home with me was a stack of lovely [...]

July 15, 2015|
Keep It Up

Last week was a bit of a rollercoaster.  It started when I learned that someone was selling scans of one of my books on Etsy.  I asked Etsy to take the listing down, and they did.  Then I asked them to take down the seller's shop (everything in it was [...]

July 13, 2015|
Sock Mountain

Let's get back to basics for a moment, shall we?  How about some knitting.  I distinctly recall a point when this blog was pretty much all knitting all the time, and I think we could perhaps do with a bit more of that, yes?  So, look, a sock in progress! [...]

July 10, 2015|
Disappointing

Update: Holy Wowza we did it! When I got up this morning, I saw that the site had zero listings.  Thank you all! Update, Part Two: Sigh, I found another scummy seller listing my book. This time, I figured I'd write a little guide on what to do if it [...]

July 8, 2015|
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