Tag: blogs
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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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Tapestry Dress
Sometimes you see a project that you have to have against all reasoning. I asked myself all kinds of questions to try to talk myself out of making this. What? I cannot purchase all the yarn needed for this in the same dye lot? When? Combination short sleeves with a high neck collar, what season will I wear…
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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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A Guide on Gauge
I am not sure if this post ought to be called A Guide on Gauge or Gauge Guiding. In either case, I have become a huge fan of knitting up gauges! To the uninformed, the process of taking time to work up a gauge might seem like an unnecessary and/or optional step in working up…
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Tom Scott Bobble
Here’s the thing. Time is sacred. Yarn is expensive. I need to get the biggest bang for my buck. There is an ever increasing list of criteria my pattern choice has to have. I have talked about them before. High on the list is its uniqueness, followed by excitement and originality, followed by wearability on…
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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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