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Hooray for Sheep!

My Mom is retiring from teaching this June after 35(ish? more?) years. I can’t image doing the same job for 35 years at this point in my life. Also? I’m a little jealous at the idea of retirement.
Anyway, she is cleaning out and giving away a lot of things she’s purchased for [...]

A few knitting gifts.

I was very lucky and received a number of knitting related Christmas gifts this year.

My parents bought me Woolly Wormhead’s Going Straight (a unique hat pattern book) and a Patons sock pattern booklet plus yarn to go with each. (SWS and Kroy Socks.) They also gave me the new Stephanie Pearl-McPhee book [...]

I realize this is a little late, but I have been browsing Amazon a lot lately looking for gift ideas and thought I’d post a list of my favorite knitting books that I own here in case someone needs an idea for the knitter in their life. (Hey – Amazon still has three days [...]