Author Archive for: ‘Maven’

• Christmas Countdown

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  Doesn’t it always come down to this? I planned to knit one thing for christmas. A simple pair of socks for my mom. Simple. Fast. Accomplishable (might not be a word). And then… I looked into the eyes of my brother who was going to …

  

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• It came down to today.

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  Today I took my car in to get the timing belt changed. And winter tires. And whatever else lives under the timing belt in my car. I had the pleasure of spending the day NOT sitting in the freezing cold and smelly mechanic office, but …

  

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• Brave

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  This is Meg. Meg is the kind of person who knits when we get together and knit (I’m sure you all have friend who don’t, and then seem irritated with you when you are knitting and not looking at them when they’re talking?) Meg has …

  

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• How (not) to store your felting needles

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  Not like this. No. Because this could happen. And then you have to do this To find this (because goddess forbid you have to explain how that thing got stuck in their child’s body) Nope. We store our needles here. Separate from our balls. *snicker.

  

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• A Salish Loom

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  Let me tell you a little story about my Salish Loom. Not so long ago, in vancouver I lived in a housing co-operative where I met a woman named Cheryl. As it turns out, Cheryl once did a lot of the things that I do …

  

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