tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189803082024-03-14T04:54:02.170-05:00Lazy daisy knits . . . lazy knitting for the massesSome call it lazy, I prefer the term "relaxed."Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17650810685784200834noreply@blogger.comBlogger710125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980308.post-34435727601608040822018-01-13T23:26:00.001-06:002018-01-13T23:26:51.184-06:00You know how you forget something? But you can't remember what it is?<div style="text-align: center;">
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It's been practically a year since I've been active here but I still can't let this show go on without me. </div>
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I could talk about each project but - but I think I'm just going to start anew. This past year was mostly hats (for charity), shawls (for friends and family), Christmas stockings (for kids) and mittens (for general consumption) - but I already have plans for 2018.</div>
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<br />Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17650810685784200834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980308.post-75604903624483560992017-04-17T00:12:00.001-05:002017-04-17T00:12:04.591-05:00Arms and dimples<div style="text-align: center;"><img id="id_c1e2_6ad2_20bb_bf19" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dDbaCPLbKhk/WPROnE8YZzI/AAAAAAAAECI/ewr8WoVbEKg/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 481px; height: auto; margin: 4px;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">Well, the Giant Sweater of Gloom has two attached sleeves and the start of a drastically reducing yoke. 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I'm taking both gray projects as well as a ball of hand spun and a new hat pattern I just bought, the <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/whiskey-highball" id="id_f3d8_e08d_99e9_c395">Whiskey Highball ha</a>t by Thea Coleman. It was just published this week and I snapped it up, her patterns are just that good!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br><img id="id_d248_750a_48ab_7e60" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A3iQFIazwzA/WMtQwWuD1GI/AAAAAAAAEBo/IreMdr4Aqks/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 446px; height: auto; margin: 4px;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">Hopefully, I'll be through to the sleeves of both sweaters by the time I'm back!</div>Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17650810685784200834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980308.post-70027036216687287122017-02-12T14:30:00.001-06:002017-02-12T14:30:37.537-06:00Two shades of gray<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">Although one of my New Years resolutions was to wear less gray, I'm starting off my winter knitting with two gray projects.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><img id="id_799e_dd7_c236_e710" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DUYOhj4HO2M/WKDF5nOJl_I/AAAAAAAAEA4/zDCtPdoXOhE/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"> <span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"><br></span></p>
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So, today I searched for a better solution and found an app that allows me to blog from my phone (where all my photos are!) </div>
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I'm a big fan of designer Thea Coleman over at <a href="https://babycocktails.blogspot.com/">https://babycocktails.blogspot.com</a>. Her cable designs are all lovely and she is one fun lady. I made this cowl in the summer for the Ravellenic 2016 Games.</div>
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So, way back in March, I bought some of this lovely red Sweet Georgia Yarns' Trinity Worsted for an <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/adama" target="_blank">Adama Cowl.</a></div>
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There were far more than eight hexipuffs needed. Right now, I'm working on sets of particular colors to finish up some sets of ten. Yeah, I'm getting a little tired of these but at least the end is in sight.</div>
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In the meantime, I'm catching up on a favorite YouTube personality - <a href="https://youtu.be/YpKpyb_7Oy0" target="_blank">Fangirl Musings</a>. She's one funny social and media commentator. Not totally safe for all situations but very, very witty.</div>
Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17650810685784200834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980308.post-31262620009279855112016-02-05T23:23:00.002-06:002016-02-05T23:23:35.343-06:00Oh, no. She did it again.<div style="text-align: center;">
Yep - that last post was September - 2015! I obviously did not have that strong talk with myself about putting things off.</div>
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Christmas came and went with the traditional demand for last minute gifts. This <a href="http://ravel.me/humbledaisy/papqd" target="_blank">Blue Leaf Headband</a> knit in Malabrigo worsted weight took very little time.<br />
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I have a daughter who will be getting married soon so she requested a Christmas stocking for the lucky guy. I've made this pattern several times - it's the <a href="http://ravel.me/humbledaisy/t8adx" target="_blank">Cascade Yarns' Christmas stocking</a> - but it's always different because you can pick and choose patterns.</div>
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Yes, it's been roughly five months since my last post. But, since it's mostly just me hanging out here, all I can do is give myself a strong talking to. And then promise myself to not do it again.</div>
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Since last April, I've been having fun running in local races.</div>
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Traveling for happy occasions . . .</div>
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Learning to skate has been a total eye opener for me!</div>
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More traveling - this time for fun and relaxation.</div>
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But, still no purple sweater for Boy X! And I don't think he wants the cardigan, the shawl or the other (prayer shawl) on my needles, either. Oh, well, Maybe for Christmas. </div>
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Youngest Child has been a knitting model for a long time. Well, he recently turned twelve and I thought it was time to give him his own Knitting Superhero name. </div>
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Sometimes he wore items knitted for other people's children.</div>
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Sometimes, he modeled his choice of knit wear.</div>
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Even the itchy sweater his mother knit for him.</div>
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He's worn lots of hats over the years - some for him and some for other people. Boy X is truly a good sport.</div>
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So, why the knitting lovefest? Several years ago, Boy X asked for a sweater - a purple sweater. Well, I think it's time to create one for him. Unfortunately, the one I thought I'd make for him, <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/caherciveen" target="_blank">Caherciveen</a></div>
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by Carol Feller in Contemporary Irish Knits (I own a copy and love it!), only goes up to size 10 and Boy X is now a size 14.</div>
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Thanks again, Boy X, for learning to love knit wear!</div>
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*Boy-X is also fabulous song by the Korean band Nell. Check out a video for it <a href="https://youtu.be/k6zSIzim1Jg" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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A favorite book of my childhood (and my own children's, I hope) sprang to mind today - A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. </div>
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As I was knitting along on my <a href="http://ravel.me/humbledaisy/6vn5d" target="_blank">Color Affection Shawl,</a> I had a chance to look at it in extreme close up and I realized that it looked just like the hills and valleys of Stevenson's little world. A knitted one, to be sure, but it was easy enough to imagine little roads and rails running along its ridges.</div>
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And one who wears such big socks already? Youngest Child is on his way to being renamed Biggest Feet! This was a carry along project this winter so it was only worked on here and there - hockey games, meetings, lunches, church services, etc. Thankfully, I finished them before his feet grew anymore! </div>
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The yarn is some inexpensive Premier Yarns Serenity Sock Weight Solids that I picked up at a general craft store. It is not a bad sock yarn and very reasonably priced. It is a little thin for my taste - I like a more circular, rolled sock yarn. </div>
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Now that's a phrase no non-knitter will understand! I mean a rounder yarn because it's usually a three ply sock yarn. This one is just very thin feeling - not soft or lofty at all. But, it seems very hard wearing so it's a good yarn for boys' socks.</div>
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The worst photo this week is the traditional "hat in progress" photo. Too small to wear yet too big to put on the dog . . .</div>
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This is a quick <a href="http://ravel.me/humbledaisy/9xn4u" target="_blank">Winter Wonderland Hat</a> from Kristin Nicholas. It uses one strand of worsted weight yarn and two strands of sock yarn. A good way to use up extra sock yarn and it's a quick knit! This one is for a charitable event this weekend. The pattern wasn't in my library until recently but I really enjoy Kristin's work and I highly recommend her <a href="http://getting-stitched-on-the-farm.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog</a> - very lovely photographs and boy, is it colorful! She has a new book out as well that I'm looking forward to reading - Crafting a Colorful Home.</div>
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This particular pair is for Youngest Child - but his feet are growing so fast, that I think I'm doomed to keep knitting and knitting and knitting. Actually, this has been my carry along project for months and I'm just picking it up here and there when I need something mindless to knit. It's my long tern library go-to pattern for socks - <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/basic-ribbed-socks" target="_blank">Wise Hilda's Basic Ribbed Socks</a> - and it's a dandy pattern. I think I'll be finishing up this week.</div>
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A little treat for you here - a video made by a local photographer featuring running in Saint Paul as well as music from one of my favorite bands, Cloud Cult.</div>
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The pattern is the<a href="http://ravel.me/humbledaisy/qvuvh" target="_blank"> Rolie Polie cowl </a>and the yarn is the super soft <a href="http://www.angoragarden.com/" target="_blank">Angora Gardens</a> - 60 % Shetland wool, 40 % Angora - a local DK weight yarn from Minnesota. Soft is the key word here! Now that I've gotten past the sections that I used when I tried my previous cowl, the Upstairs Downstairs Cowl, it's also no longer quite as sheddy. </div>
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Youngest Child (perhaps I should start referring to him as Young Master Daisy?) asked for these <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/owlmittens" target="_blank">Owl Mittens</a> some time ago when he was still in his Harry Potter phase. Well, as I'm knitting them in a light worsted weight instead of the fingering weight called for, they will be fitting him for the next few years.</div>
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I've made <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/spillyjane-knits" target="_blank">SpillyJane Knits patterns</a> before and she has a good eye for design. Some of her patterns include bacon, gnomes, chairs and bow ties. Amazing stuff!</div>
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Otherwise known as a hockey tournament. We're on our third game of the weekend right now and that usually means a lot of knitting for me. Unfortunately, I brought along my <a href="http://ravel.me/humbledaisy/sqge6">Owl Mittens</a> by SpillyJaneKnits from my library. A lovely pattern that I've had in my library for over a year. A pattern that I forgot to enlarge. </div>
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I have been able to knit in my hotel room, however. I'm using a larger yarn than the pattern calls for - the Stone and Pepper Nature Spun color ways - and watching a few Japanese television dramas to kill the time between games. This one? Atashinchi no Danshi - a crazy "anime style" drama about what it means to be a family. English sub titles, of course, but still quite fun. </div>
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A year ago, I heard about a cute little pattern, guaranteed to use up your leftover sock yarn, called <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-beekeepers-quilt" target="_blank">The Beekeeper's Quilt</a> by Tiny Owl Knits. Using up leftovers? That seemed right up my alley and I promptly started the journey. </div>
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Hmm, what to do in 2015? I'm thinking the "15 Mixed Projects" challenge in the 15 in 2015 Ravelry Group. Those are new projects as well as old projects, new stash or old stash. Basically, we're just finishing up stuff as quickly as possible. Works for me!</div>
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I'm also joining the <a href="http://snapdragoncrafts.blogspot.com/2015/01/love-your-library-challenge-2015-edition.html" target="_blank">Love Your Library Challenge 2015</a> from Snapdragon crafts. Like many of us crafters, Blogger Emily loves books. And for the last few years, she's been trying to actually use them. </div>
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I know that my four unfinished works from 2014 will be on this list - they are all from books or patterns already in my library - my <a href="http://ravel.me/humbledaisy/qvuvh" target="_blank">Upstairs, Downstairs</a> cowl, the <a href="http://ravel.me/humbledaisy/kd4l4" target="_blank">2014 Advent Scarf</a>, the <a href="http://ravel.me/humbledaisy/g9v3n" target="_blank">Green Socks</a> (based on Wise Hilda's Basic Ribbed Socks) and the <a href="http://ravel.me/humbledaisy/r5550" target="_blank">River Grass Gansey</a>. The other ten will be coming from some combination of my library.</div>
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Nine years ago, Ladies and Gents, I got this wild idea to write about knitting.</div>
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It was much more of a "thing" then and I was much more regular about postings. Now, I am still the "over scheduled knitter" described in my very first blog post. Let's take a look, shall we?</div>
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- "<i>Lazy knitters don't move fast.</i>" </div>
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Whoo, boy, is that the truth. Whether it's my knitting life or my sporting life, my times just never get faster. But - they aren't really getting longer, either, so there!</div>
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- "<i>Probably that there aren't enough hours in the day to accomplish all that I want - and still get a nap</i>." </div>
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- "<i>Minnesota might just be heaven for knitters. Ample yarn stores, great local knitters and (mostly) beautiful weather make for relaxing knitting</i>." </div>
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This month, I just finished (and raced to mail) a <a href="http://ravel.me/humbledaisy/c6jq5" target="_blank">Seamless Yoked Baby Sweater</a>. No one I know is having babies any more so this was a sentimental kind of project. And darling!</div>
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First, I knit up an early Christmas present (a Lady Londenberry shawlette) out of Cascade Yarns' Venezia Bulky.</div>
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Oh, you can find almost anything on <a href="http://ravelry.com./">Ravelry.com.</a> Yarns and patterns. Yarn stores and sellers. Korean drama lovers, German Shepherd owners, Formula One fans and sock appreciation societies. </div>
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Mara Mori brought me </div>
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two socks as soft as rabbits. </div>
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knitted with threads of twilight and goatskin, </div>
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Violent socks, </div>
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my feet were two fish made of wool, </div>
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two long sharks </div>
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sea blue, shot through </div>
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by one golden thread, </div>
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two immense blackbirds, </div>
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two cannons, </div>
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my feet were honored in this way </div>
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They were so handsome for the first time </div>
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my feet seemed to me unacceptable </div>
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like two decrepit firemen, </div>
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firemen unworthy of that woven fire, </div>
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of those glowing socks.</div>
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to save them somewhere as schoolboys </div>
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keep fireflies, </div>
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as learned men collect </div>
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sacred texts, </div>
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birdseed and pieces of pink melon. </div>
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Like explorers in the jungle </div>
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who hand over the very rare green deer </div>
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the magnificent socks and then my shoes.</div>
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and what is good is doubly good </div>
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when it is a matter of two socks </div>
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made of wool in winter.</div>
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Everyone knows that knitting tends to lag in the summertime. It's just too hot to work on large projects. I should know! My red sweater is waiting to be steeked while two of my other knitting partners are still on vacation and/or finishing up their versions of the Saddle Shouldered Aran.</div>
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In the meantime, I've been doing some small projects for the Minnesota Knitters' Guild's Service Committee. This year, the committee has gone high tech and "virtual" in an effort to get more knitters across the state knitting for more groups in a larger service area - Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota. </div>
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The 11 service committee members across the state are meeting via email to plan collection drives for different groups that might not be on Twin Cities knitters' radar. This year, the project is for warm hats, mittens and gloves for adults and adolescents. </div>
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So far, we are collecting warm winter items for Changing Gaits (an organization that uses horses to help people with a variety of behavioral issues), the Red Lake Indian Reservation, Barrels of Hope in Waterville, MN, Lutheran Social Services, and two St. Paul schools - Como Park and Washington Senior High Schools. </div>
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Whew! That's a lot of hats and warm gloves.</div>
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I'll admit it - my own contributions have been minimal so far. Two hats and some mittens. However, the MKG is hoping that each of of our over 650 members will complete at least two items for this drive. That's going to keep a lot of people warm.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pattern is "Everyone's favorite hat" by Evelyn A. Clark.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sampler hat for my EZ Saddle Shoulder Aran.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/2 of my Instant Mittens - pattern by Mary Jane Mucklestone</td></tr>
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Next up, another Windschief by Stephen West and a Pup Tent Cap by Catherine Gamroth. I highly recommend these two patterns as fun and quick to complete. </div>
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Recently, the MKG posted their request on Ravelry.com.</div>
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"Bring your knitted items to the monthly Guild meetings. If you cannot attend the monthly meetings, you can mail your donations to the Textile Center of Minnesota at </div>
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Guild Service Committee. </div>
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If you would like yarn for yourself or your knitting group, please send your request to Betty Hanna at infomaster@knitters.org and some supplies will be mailed to you. We recently received several very generous donations and are well stocked with yarn! </div>
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Everyone who donates, whether a Guild member or not, will have his or her name entered into drawings for prizes. The drawings will take place at the August, 2014 and January, 2015 Guild meetings. </div>
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So, if your sweaters or baby blankets are just too tedious right now - hats and mittens are quick, lightweight and could win you fabulous prizes!</div>
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