Tag: blogging
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Blog Hop on Creativity
An invite from a fellow Raveler, Bowie asking if I would like to participate in a creative blog hop! Sure would! I love questions such as these as they force thinking of the why and wherefore of things, and I know that reflection on any level is the best way to learn, for everyone. Also, this reminds me of those chain…
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VKL 2015 – More than a Fashion Show
Vogue Knitting Live, 2015 was not all runway glitz and glamour but offered us, participants much more.
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ON the Runway, 2015
From couch to runway… Well, let’s just say I have always been a private knitter. For years I’ve knitted right here in my house, wherever it might be, in the location that was designated by the family as Holly’s knitting spot, and pretty much under the same lamp that has traveled with us from one location to…
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Blog Debacle
Anyone following hollyknits may have noticed the many changes and directions this blog has taken lately and none of those changes has anything to do with writing a new post! So, what is the story and why no post?
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Long awaited ‘Drapey’ (Part 1 of 2)
Finally and finished! This has been on my mind since turning the page of that exquisite Vogue Knitting Magazine Issue, way back in the Spring of 2013. Smitten with this Tom Scott beauty and Tom Scott’s designs, in general, I ordered the yarn immediately thinking that the yarn and my working it up was just around the…
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Rust Cardi
Now, the question becomes who thought of this motto first, VK or me? The motto I am now seeing heading the instruction pages in recent issues of Vogue Knitting: plan, make, finish, wear has been my mantra for the last 35 years or so whether it be in knitting or sewing (my personal predecessor to hand…
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A Knitter’s Keepsake
People blog for many different reasons [in the knitting world], and elsewhere. Some to share skills or finished objects, to share advice, some to advertise newly published designs, some to state opinions, or to review knitting books. Not that I don’t do any of those things as well but what mostly motivates me to…
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