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Two Fisted Knitting

So I’ve been working on Eunny Jang’s Endpaper Mitts.  It’s a pretty involved two color project, worked in the round, and I’m doing both at once on two circs (see the picture below).
Since nothing is ever complicated enough, I’ve decided to use this opportunity to try a new technique.
I have a vague suspicion that when [...]

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Tubular cast on for endpaper mits
Originally uploaded by efbq

I’m currently working on Eunny Jang’s “Endpaper Mits” using Poems and Pace sock yarns. The yarn weights are slightly different, but when worked about 50/50 they give gauge. I double checked and the Poems (which is lighter) still works for the ribbing.  Went with a [...]

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The cleo clutch has made me realize a simple truth.  I don’t hold myself to the same standard when I’m working on a project for myself as I do when it’s for someone else.
The more I mess up the cables, the more I knit myself into a corner and have to improvise (by, for example, [...]

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My husband almost never asks me to knit for him. He isn’t a ’sweater’ sort of guy, he doesn’t generally go for hand knitted hats (though he might be convinced to wear a nice, simple tam), and the entire household loses mittens and gloves. So, when he brought my attention to knitty’s binary [...]

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