Author name: Carol Tomany

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Thumbs up for knitted mitts

As promised a post on personalized knitting – the first of many, I hope! In fact I got the idea for the post from my very good friend Brenda, whom I have known for over 25 years and have known as a knitter for 15 years – I know this sounds strange but for the […]

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January Survival Kit

Well it’s January 28 and I’m into survival mode – I need to get through the next 6-8 weeks of winter. I know, I complained about the warm weather in January and now I’m going to complain about the cold -20C. But I have survived this month so far because of: – One dark Benfica

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Lucy’s Lamborgini

I was just about ready to pack away the Christmas paraphernalia when I came across two brilliant cards that I was sent this year. The first one was from Lucy Neatby. Lucy used a photo from her sister’s collection, (Her sister is a professional photographer in England – see link) , cleverly added some text

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Skippy to the Finish Line

I have finally finished “Skippy” – so named because he’s the colour of peanut butter and a “jumper” – a basic pullover. I ‘ll not bore you with the number of times I knit the end of the sleeves – from mid-forearm down – too short, too tight, too short still…it went on and on;

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Oh Solstice, My Solstice

I had to write to-day because, my favourite day of the year – December 21 is at hand. It is the day set aside to mark the winter solstice- the day that the sun stops going south and turns around to head north again. I know the Earth really tilts on its axis, but at

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Here we go a-ravelling….

…among the sleeves with care….or something like that. If sleep does indeed knit up that ravelled sleeve of care, would we sleep better the more sleeves we ravelled, err knit? I say this because I have been knitting and ripping out the same sleeve for the 3rd maybe 4th time. First it was too big.

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Oh Solstice, my Solstice…

I had to write to-day because, my favourite day of the year – December 21 is at hand. It is the day set aside to mark the winter solstice- the day that the sun stops going south and turns around to head north again. I know the Earth really tilts on its axis, but at

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Here We Go A-Reavelling..

…among the sleeves with care….or something like that. If sleep does indeed knit up that ravelled sleeve of care, would we sleep better the more sleeves we ravelled, err knit? I say this because I have been knitting and ripping out the same sleeve for the 3rd maybe 4th time. First it was too big.

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Goddess Knits

I think that we are very close to the sublime with these patterns; however, we may have been closer, sooner, had my “opinion” not intervened. Here’s what happened. About a month ago Renee of Bo Peep’s Wool Shop in Iowa contacted me about distributing her patterns. I looked at the jpegs and thought “WOW,” these

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A Diamond For St. Andrew

Many apologies for the delay in posting. I have been dealing with FAMILY and I am sure that everyone can relate in their own way to the tremendous responsibility that family, be it biological or otherwise, involves. We, who do not choose to be islands, know that in order to have our infra-structure when we

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