Category: Blog Posts
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Unraveled Crop Top
I’m not sure if this is a top or a mixed media project, but it’s the closest I’ve gotten to a shirt I ruined at an ice cream festival in 2018. The original was a soft white tee, cropped at the waist, with tassels sewn to the bottom. Although I realized while I was working…
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Aunt Stacie
I didn’t knit much this summer. I thought about picking up some sport weight and plaing around with lace patterns, or experimenting with the sweat resistant properties of bamboo (that I may have imagined?). But it’s been hot and sticky outside and because of my overworked AC unit, usually hot and sticky inside too. So…
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Deco Wave Pullover
Oops, I did it again. “It” meaning knit a sweater that’s a cross between a tennis player from 1922 and a babysitter from 1985. There was definitely a resurgence of some 1920s styles in the 1980s. I’m basing most of this on the dress my mom wore to her rehearsal dinner in 1989 – cobalt…
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Diamond Pullover
This sweater falls into the sweet spot on the Venn diagram between things I want to wear on a boat and things that remind me of my fashion paper dolls. I found it in a Google Image search while I was looking for some vintage knitting inspiration and I think I did a reasonable job…
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Tulip Skirt
Who knew the secret to making skirts stay up was elastic? Was it everyone? Because I just found out while remaking my Scrap Yarn Pencil Skirt. This is an update of a pretty recent pattern, but I still only had pictures and the blog post to work with. One reason I take so many pictures…
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Siegfried Vest
Mom’s been watching the remake of All Creatures Great and Small and asked me for another vest by texting me this picture of Siegfried: I spent a significant chunk of my childhood watching the car from the original All Creatures Great and Small drive backward by playing our VHS tapes in reverse, so I’m pretty…
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Diamond Hat Redo
“Braces. What an evil word.” Those are the first words I jotted down when I wrote this beanie pattern ten years ago. I completely forgot about this hat. I don’t remember making it, wearing it, or getting rid of it, but I remember this orthodontic appointment. When I was sixteen, shortly after I got my…
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Abstract Sweater
I didn’t study much my senior year in college. Instead, I spent a solid chunk of my time painting abstracts with tiny brushes on five inch squares of canvas. I see painting now as a form of meditation – clearing my thoughts to focus on swirls of complementary color. But back then, as my rickety…
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Big Sweater Smaller Sweater
There’s a picture of my dad that used to sit on my mom’s bedside table – in the nebulous lore that is my dad’s past, I would place it somewhere around the time he took a break from college and lived in Colorado, getting by teaching other sometime-college-students to ski. In this picture, he’s leaning…
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