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I couldn’t think of an appropriate title for this episode.
300 seems to say it all. Thank you to everyone who has listened over the past 7
½ years. Three hundred episodes astounds me and I could not have done it
without your listening, support, feedback, and friendships. I enjoy creating
the show and plan to keep going as long as I can keep the content informative. What
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star ratings. Difair on 1/9, abjwilhite 1/28, and melanieroberts72 on 1/29.
Thank you to everyone who has been in touch with me and a
special welcome to our newest Pipeliners who have introduced yourselves to us
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esalaza who is Erica in TX.
Wisewoman: There’s
frogging and there’s hibernating, but there is no cute name for putting a
project in the trash when you decide it has thoroughly defeated you. Even threw
away the pattern I had paid for on ravelry. Not the first time I have killed
off a project and I feel relieved--like you might if you broke your foot or
something on the way up Mt. Everest when you really didn’t want to do it, or
were doing it for the wrong reasons. I just wish I could come up with a cute
name for killing off something. Killing seems too harsh. But then again, I was
really mad. Maybe I could call it “too proud to use a lifeline”.
Bronwyn wrote: Ouch!
That’s rough. Sorry to hear about your struggle. I’m too stubborn to throw out
a project altogether. We’ll have to come up with a name for that, though. Maybe
we can use a gangster cliche: My project’s not just in the frog pond; it’s sleeping with the fishes.
Events
Knitting Pipeline Retreat in Washington Illinois FAQ’s in a
separate short episode later this week.
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The Market is open to the public on Saturday afternoon, Feb 17, starting at 2 PM
New KALs
Official start will be Feb 10 but start anytime. I will
divide the KAL into weeks so you can do it like a Mystery KAL without the
mystery. I’ll post the Pacer Schedule soon. Some of the Sprinters are already
up and running. I’ll be a Pacer.
Le Mouton Rouge and Klose Knit both carry Berroco Remix.
About the shawl design process…
Asymmetrical triangle. Start with just a few stitches and
you increase one st per row.
Skagen is a part
of Denmark. Skagen is the town. Skagens Odde is the piece of land that
points toward Sweden and it divides the two seas that come together there. You
can stand with a foot in both seas, Kattegat and Skagerak.
Famous for the light in the area because of all the water
and sand that reflects the light. Painters of Michael and Anna Ancher, and
Holger Drachmann.
RÃ¥bjerg Mile (Denmark’s largest moving sand dune) and the
church buried in sand
The headland, Skagens Odde, is northern Europe's best place
for observing birds of prey during their spring migration.
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Boneyard |
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Land of Sweets |
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Winter Forest |
I left off one of the smaller motifs because I could see the
cowl would be the right size without it and I didn’t want it to be too deep.
Finished measurements after blocking are 9 1/2” deep and 26”
circumference.
In the Frog Pond Refract Socks
by Rachel Coopey in Making 4. Not "Sleeping with the Fishes".
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This was more than 2 days of knitting. |
Haste ye back!