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		<title>Return To Sender</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s nothing like an impending deadline to jump start the old creative juices. Of course, it could just be the adrenaline speaking. Case in point. I dawdled on Deb&#8217;s Scarf (not Menz) until the day before I was going to give her the present. Yes, I could have waited and given it to her late, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1778</link>
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		<title>Twill Scarf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Warp: Gold handspun in 50/50 merino/silk; approx. 40 wpi.
Weft: Olive handspun in 50/50 merino/silk; approx. 40 wpi.
Loom: Gilmore Gem II
Sett: 20 epi
Pattern: 2/2 twill
Width: 8&#8243; on loom, 6.75&#8243; after finishing
Length: 70&#8243; on loom plus hem, forgot to measure after finishing
Yarn spun February 22-26. Warped the loom on March 5. Wove on the morning of March [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1768</link>
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		<title>Injured</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I missed a step last week, and came tumbling down the stairs in the middle of the night. Nothing broken, but I broke the fall with both hands and my (bad) knee. Ugh. It&#8217;s been a week and the right wrist is still painful. Do you know how much you use your dominant hand&#8217;s wrist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1766</link>
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		<title>Creative Euphoria and GTD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I live in this state of creative euphoria whenever I attend events like SOAR or Madrona Fiber Arts&#8216; Winter Retreat or CNCH. There is so much creative energy around me, both in and out of the classroom environment.  My imagination is limitless. There are endless projects to design and possibilities to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1761</link>
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		<title>Tired Math</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Never ever try to do math, even simple math, when you are tired.
Case in point. I measured; I swatched for yoke sweater. All good. 8 sts to 2&#8243;. Easy. Just plug that number there into the EPS worksheet. Yup. Plug it in. Okay, pull out the calculator and see how many stitches to cast on. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1757</link>
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		<title>Home from Madrona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I do every time I return from a fiber retreat, I am full of inspiration and project ideas. I&#8217;m like a little kid at Christmas with visions of sugar plums. This year&#8217;s Madrona was no exception. I took 4 all day classes, but only attended 3.5 of them.
Janine&#8217;s Fair Isle Yoke Sweater Design class [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1754</link>
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		<title>Blue Spruce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Fiber: Rovings Polwarth Export Fine
Colorway: Semi Solid Blue Spruce
Weight: 735 grams
Yardage: 1,544 yards (before fulling)
Plies: 3
WPI: 10-12
This was spun and plied on the Butterfly. I&#8217;m still getting used to the eSpinner. The yarn is not as consistent as I would like, and some areas are over twisted. The yarn is destined for a sweater or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1749</link>
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		<title>Refinishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not a whole lot of exciting things happening here. I can&#8217;t seem to focus on much lately, and haven&#8217;t wanted to commit to a new project with so many unfinished projects around. So, instead of actually picking up one of those UFOs and working on them, I created UFOs.
Huh? Create UFOs yet not start on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1738</link>
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		<title>Mom&#8217;s Tasha Shawl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Finished.

I finished this over a week ago. It&#8217;s the first time we&#8217;ve had sunshine for picture taking in weeks.
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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1730</link>
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		<title>Shawls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As knitters, it&#8217;s been drilled into us over and over to get enough of a single dye lot to finish your project. Even buy an extra skein to make sure that you have enough. But when it comes to kettle dyed/hand dyed yarns, you have to be even more diligent.
My mom has been complaining of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1727</link>
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		<title>Lunch Boxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Today&#8217;s post has nothing to do with fibers. So, skip as you wish.)
I smiled when I saw these LunchBots at the health food store today.
Why? They reminded me of the metal bento boxes we had while growing up in Taiwan.
Each evening, leftovers are packed in tight into these metal boxes and tied with string.  There&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1717</link>
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		<title>New Vest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I said in my last post, the CMF Superwash 3 ply in &#8220;The Beat Goes On&#8221; colorway wasn&#8217;t pleasant to knit as sock yarn.  I did wear it for a couple of walks (purl side out), and it wasn&#8217;t too bad to wear, but my fingers were still cramped from knitting it on little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1711</link>
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		<title>Anklets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Two pairs of anklets. The yarn is 3-ply handspun.  Both are spun from Crown Mountain Farm&#8217;s Superwash Merino Handpaint and knit on 2.5 mm needles.
The green should be familiar.  It was first used here as a 2 ply; and 3 ply sock yarn here, and again here.  As you can see, 8 oz go a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1705</link>
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		<title>New Loom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


Hand carved beater bar! (click for bigger)
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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1700</link>
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		<title>Ribbed Cap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Pattern? I loosely based it on Vogue Knitting&#8217;s Ribbed Cap, except I knitted it in the round instead of flat. 104 sts instead of 106, and the shaping had to change to accommodate the new stitch count and working in the round.
I made it 8&#8243; long instead of 6&#8243; before starting the crown, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1689</link>
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		<title>Happy Solstice!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Photo from Lunar &#38; Planetary Institute Newsletter (Dec 2007).
This picture was taken the morning of the 2000 Winter Solstice near Ames, Iowa. The halo is made by sunlight shining through millions of ice crystals.
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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1679</link>
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		<title>Socks Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve tried wearing the same socks &#8220;inside out&#8221; &#8212; the stockinette surface against the skin. And you know what? It works! The abrasive qualities are gone.
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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1684</link>
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		<title>Wears Like Iron</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I signed up to walk a half marathon in June. By announcing it here means that I can&#8217;t back out, right? And in preparation of that, I will also be doing a 5K walk on New Year&#8217;s Day.
Yesterday, I went to the Y and hopped on the treadmill to get a baseline. I wanted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1672</link>
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		<title>New Recipes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not food (although Grace and I did IM each other about food quite a bit last night &#8212; winter vegetables&#8230;yum!), but knitting recipes.
I culled through my past blogs and compiled a list of knitting recipes that I&#8217;ve sort of written in the past. A little more than scribbles on whatever is handy in the kitchen, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1663</link>
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		<title>Shrug Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the weather has turned cold, I find myself reaching for warm and snuggly things to wrap around me.  The item I reach for the most is my shrug. I made this shrug nearly 3 years ago, and it still gets worn on a regular basis.  I like it because it is easy to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1644</link>
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		<title>Hiker&#8217;s Waistcoat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Pattern: Hiker&#8217;s Waistcoat
Yarn: Cascade Rustic (3.5 skeins), purchased from Island Wools, Friday Harbor, WA
This was a quick knit.  It took less than a week. The neckline didn&#8217;t quite work out as the pattern stated so I winged it a bit.  Otherwise, I followed the pattern exactly as written.  The problem was that the vest came [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1639</link>
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		<title>New Interweave Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting new challenge from Interweave Press/Handwoven&#8230;Not Just For Socks with your handwoven. There are a lot of fun things you can make with those sock yarns and a rigid heddle loom or portable looms like Weavettes.
Deadline is February 28, 2010. Lots of great prizes too.
Grace &#8212; There&#8217;s plenty of time for Iris to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1637</link>
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		<title>Cold Weather Knitting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The weather has turned COLD since I returned from SOAR.  I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s been cold all along, but because of my self enforced confinement due to the cold pre-SOAR, I just didn&#8217;t notice it.  In any case, the whispers in the back recess of my brain are now shrieking&#8230;Vests! Hats! Mitts! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1634</link>
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		<title>SOAR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So much to say yet so little to show for it on my cameras.  At least, that I&#8217;m willing to share on the blog. After all, I need to hold back something for blackmailing. Karaoke with Velma &#38; Nancy Roberts, anyone? Samba line dancing? (Thank goodness no one took pictures of me doing that!) Stetson [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1588</link>
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		<title>CNCH 2010 Registration Open!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CNCH 2010 online registration is now open! Go check it out.  We&#8217;ve got some great programs!
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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1585</link>
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		<title>Blanket Update #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to my spreadsheet, I&#8217;m about 40% of desired size.  I haven&#8217;t blocked it yet, so it might be a bit more.  But I don&#8217;t intend to block it aggressively, so the size is probably fairly accurate.  The sections are going very very slowly. But I know I&#8217;m committed enough to the project to start [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1580</link>
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		<title>Still Here; Homeward Bound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Still alive and kicking.  I pretty much lucked out and dodged all the typhoons in the Philippines. I&#8217;m also scheduled to miss the remnants of Typhoon Melor that hit Japan last week and due to hit the west coast early this week.
The diving was good. I can&#8217;t say great because I don&#8217;t think it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1578</link>
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		<title>Taiwan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made it to Taiwan after 22 hours in airplanes and airports. I did work on the Patchwork Throw a bit. And as predicted, I did end up having one small ball of yarn roll away into the deep reaches.  Thankfully, it was a small ball and I was able to knit it off quickly.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1572</link>
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		<title>Pink is for October</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going Pink for October. I&#8217;m not doing anything fancy except changing in the background color because I just don&#8217;t have time right now to build a new template around this. Perhaps next year.  In the meantime, read up on it and click on through to give free mammograms.  Which reminds me, I&#8217;m due for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1563</link>
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		<title>October</title>
		<description><![CDATA[October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Please click through the link on the right to give free mammograms!
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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1560</link>
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		<title>Turkish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading Syne&#8217;s post about her Yarn Turtles, I thought it was the perfect solution to my &#8220;what spinning should I take with me on vacation?&#8221; question.  The Turkish spindle breaks down in nice neat package.  There are no delicate hooks that can get bent out of shape.
I took a look at all my Turkish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1552</link>
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		<title>Blanket Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The blanket is coming along very very slowly. I seem to rip more than I knit.  How is that possible? I&#8217;m still net positive on the blanket. It physically exists.  Math doesn&#8217;t work that way.
So what&#8217;s the deal?
Because I&#8217;m making it up as I go, and I&#8217;ve been working at it very sporadically, I can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1537</link>
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		<title>CNCH 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the CNCH (Conference of Northern California Handweaver) Liaison Luncheon and Advisory Meeting.  This also means that it&#8217;s the official unveiling of the CNCH 2010 conference. The conference brochures will be passed out to the Liaisons to take home to their guilds. But this year, in addition to the paper brochures, we will also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1529</link>
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		<title>Happy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Even though I&#8217;ve known about this for a while now, and blogged about it, there&#8217;s still something magical about seeing your project and name in print.
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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1525</link>
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		<title>Call Me Pot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While on the island, I spent a wonderful afternoon visiting with Kathleen and Eva. As with most of our visits, talk quickly turns to fiber (along with food).  Kathleen mentioned that she was about to buy yet another loom.  And we all laughed at how Kathleen tends to go overboard with her acquisitions. This will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1520</link>
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		<title>Twitchin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have the Deb Menz blanket (&#8220;DBM&#8221; because I&#8217;m lazy that way) that I must finish, but haven&#8217;t touched in about 10 days.  But while sitting in the CNCH 2010 planning meeting yesterday, I was mesmerized by Carole&#8217;s lace stole.  I am twitching to cast on for a new lace piece.  I am fighting that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1518</link>
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		<title>Still Here&#8230;Barely.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where has the time gone? I packed a whole lot of fiber projects when I came up on the island.  Sheesh. I have nearly 2 months. Of course, I&#8217;ll be able to weave some hand towels, a shawl or two, finish spinning all the remaining singles and ply them for the Deb Menz blanket, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1511</link>
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		<title>CCF Socks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is sock from the previous post. I&#8217;m almost at the heel (toe up). 
I got lucky and made it on the Port Townsend ferry without a reservation. I made the decision to try for it, since I wasn&#8217;t thrilled about the idea of trying to get through Seattle during rush hour. Whew! Now to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1509</link>
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		<title>Off to Sock Summit!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m mostly packed. I&#8217;ll head south tomorrow for Portland and the Sock Summit.  I&#8217;ll be helping Marcy out in the Weaving Works booth tomorrow evening and possibly Friday morning.  Otherwise, I&#8217;ll just be hanging around visiting (and shopping).  Stop by and say &#8220;hi!&#8221;
A quick post to show you what I&#8217;ve been up to.
From this&#8230;

Curious Creek [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1503</link>
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		<title>Still Spinning Away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Here&#8217;s the view from my spinning wheel.  Needless to say, I&#8217;ve been a little distracted.  Aside from looking out at the water, watching the sunset, planting herbs, putting in some shrubs, I&#8217;ve also been busy picking berries and making jam.  Posting might be a little sporadic as I get back into the groove of island [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1501</link>
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		<title>Relaxing 4th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barb called to see if I was interested in joining her on a little field trip on the 4th instead of doing the usual thing with the throngs.  I jumped at the idea as soon as she uttered &#8220;Artfibers.&#8221;
I hadn&#8217;t been to Artfibers since they moved out of San Francisco, so this was my first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1490</link>
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		<title>Happy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Straight edges. 90° corners (T-Square provided as proof). Tidy attachments.
This is probably the 3rd iteration of this attempt because I wasn&#8217;t satisified with variations of attaching the live knitting to the knitted piece.  The one I finally settled on is: sl last stitch as if to purl, pickup edge stitch from the back, purl 2 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1484</link>
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		<title>Playing with Color</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been looking at the pile of little tiny skeins of plied yarn from my two workshops with Deb Menz (SOAR 2008 and Spring 2009).  They are a pretty lot.

I wrapped them onto old business cards*&#8230;

Then I took the leftover bits and started a project&#8230;

Pretty, isn&#8217;t it? Too bad it&#8217;s on hold right now.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1473</link>
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		<title>Pinwheel Shrug Finished</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for 90+F weather. I don&#8217;t have a way of photographing this (it keeps slipping off hangers), but I assure you that it&#8217;s lovely. Just the thing to keep me warm while I read or work on the computer. 
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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1471</link>
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		<title>Cola</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Meet Cola. (Get it? Coal&#8230;Cola.)  Black merino fleece from Janet Heppler, purchased at Retzlaff Winery Spin-In a few weekends ago.  Isn&#8217;t she gorgeous?  I grabbed her because I was there with a checkbook at the right time. There was someone else interested in her, but they walked away to look for a friend to share [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1468</link>
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		<title>Yarn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lest you think I&#8217;ve completely gone over to the dark side. There has been activities other than weaving around here.
Tactile Fiber Arts April Club
Fiber: 50/50 Angora/Merino
Weight: 2 oz
Singles: 60-68 wpi
2-Ply: 36 wpi, pre-fulled; 28 wpi, fulled
Yardage: 438 yards, pre-fulled; 426 yards, fulled.
Singles spun on Reeves Frame Wheel. Plied on Schacht Matchless.
I firmly plied this yarn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1463</link>
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		<title>Theo Morman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine it sideways&#8230;much more fun than I expected.

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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1461</link>
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		<title>Weaving in Miniature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been spinning nor weaving much lately. I&#8217;ve been bitten by the weaving bug in the past week.  Actually, it&#8217;s been going on for a while, but more from the perspective of experimentation than production.

Remember how I mentioned in my original Spring Cleaning post that I had an idea for an unspun silk project?  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1441</link>
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		<title>CVM Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just  a quick follow up to the earlier CVM post.
I came home today to my copy of the Summer Spin-Off. What do I find but an excellent article on CVM by Robin Russo? It was good to see that my washing and combing experiences were fairly on target with Robin&#8217;s. I found that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1438</link>
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		<title>I am giddy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Ann,
Thanks so much for entering our “All Wrapped Up In Natural Fibers” contest. Congratulations—your scarf has been selected as a finalist for the Fall 2009 Handspun Gallery!
&#8230;
Best wishes,
Amy
Editor of Spin-Off magazine
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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1431</link>
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		<title>CVM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the weekend washing fleece.  When I was able to finish up the California Red on Saturday afternoon, I got over confident and thought that I finish both the CVM and the rest of Jill on Sunday, if I got going nice and early.  Did I say I got over confident? I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1412</link>
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		<title>Finishing Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been some finishing work around here.
I finally finished spinning and plying the moorit merino/silk roving.  There are 1,460 yards of 2-ply yarn here.  It&#8217;s approximately 18 wpi off of the wheel.  I haven&#8217;t wet finished this yarn yet. Once I do so, the fiber will bloom quite a bit.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1409</link>
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		<title>Spring Cleaning #7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Project #6: The Victoria Shawl from Victorian Lace Today
I&#8217;m embarrassed to say that I think this one languished only because I forgot about it. I pulled it out to as a trip project. On return, it got put away. Out of sight, out of mind.
I don&#8217;t remember the name nor the colorway of the yarn, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1351</link>
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		<title>Station Break</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spring Cleaning will resume tomorrow. Yeah, it&#8217;s depressing how many more there are. I&#8217;ll keep going until I am either finished with cataloging them or I&#8217;m too embarrassed to list more.  Whichever comes first.
There has been other fiber activities around here, in addition to the spring cleaning.  I&#8217;ve been working away at 12 oz of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1405</link>
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		<title>Spring Cleaning #6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Project #5: This should look familiar &#8212; the ubiquitous Clapotis.
I had resisted when this was all the rage.  I had continued to resist even after seeing a few first hand.  It&#8217;s nice, but I just wasn&#8217;t interested.
However, once I saw Penny&#8217;s Clapotis, I fell in love.  The drape of the Koigu in this pattern is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1350</link>
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		<title>Spring Cleaning #5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Project #4: Squirrel Mittens
I started these in the fall of 2007 and abandoned it on November 21, 2007.  How do I know the exact date? It was the date that I IMed with my sister about this project.  I had intended this to be mittens for Iris.
Obviously, it won&#8217;t fit her now.  She&#8217;s been growing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1348</link>
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		<title>Faroese Styled Shawl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Specs:

My own design: from the neck down; finished off with 3 st i-cord bound off/edging all the way around
Yarn: Noro Silk Garden Sock, 1+ skein each of White/Natural (S269, Lot A) and Reds (S84, Lot A)
Needles: 3.00 mm
Back Length: 15&#8243;

I had originally aimed for about 20&#8243; depth, but I was so darned bored with this, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1383</link>
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		<title>Spring Cleaning #4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Project #3: Anarchy Sweater by Anna Zilboorg
I honestly don&#8217;t know what to do with this.  I seem to pick this sweater up about once a year. Work on it a little bit, and then abandon it.  My heart just isn&#8217;t into this sweater.
I had already woven in all the ends in the main body of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1340</link>
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		<title>Spring Cleaning #3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Project #2: Circular Shrug
I started this back in January. I was always cold while sitting in my home office for hours at a time. I was thinking shrugs. Then my mind went to the circular baby blanket I made a while back.  I used the dimensions specified in Elann&#8217;s Pinwheel Sweater for the sleeve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1317</link>
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		<title>Spring Cleaning #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spring cleaning of another sort.

The cottage is finally nearing completion.  The new French doors are in. The cabinets are getting their finish this week.  The new sofa and chair are in the warehouse, waiting for the construction crap to be hauled away. It was time for me to dig my rugs out of storage.
Today, they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1329</link>
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		<title>Spring Cleaning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know. This weekend actually marks the beginning of summer here in the United States, but the summer equinox isn&#8217;t for another month, so I&#8217;m still good.
I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about projects that have been languishing in various knitting bags around the house, and it&#8217;s time to make some hard decisions about these projects. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1304</link>
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		<title>Mary Cassatt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Google is celebrating one of my favorite Impressionists today. Mary Cassatt.
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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1299</link>
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		<title>Brushed Mohair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Mohair/Silk: 1 ply each
28-32 wpi (minus the halo)
852 yards
I finished spinning this yarn back in February, but I never got around to finishing it until this week.  After washing the skein, I whacked and thwacked it around to loosen up the mohair.  Once dried, I wound and rewound the skein/ball on my ball winder while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1283</link>
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		<title>Cabling Along</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first started to knit cables, I used those metal cable needles that looked like a shepherd&#8217;s crook. I hated it. Moving stitches around the crook was a PITA.
I moved on to the metal cable needles with a little hump in the middle, like an elongated omega (Ω). This wasn&#8217;t bad. You can knit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1281</link>
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		<title>Gordian Knot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
This is what happens if you don&#8217;t secure your skeins well before wet finishing. Unlike Alexander the Great, I persevered and found one of the ends. (Are you kidding me? It&#8217;s 3-ply alpaca!) It took me about an hour to find an end and 6 hours to wind it into a ball.  The trick is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1278</link>
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		<title>Back in the spinning saddle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been fighting with my Schacht Matchless for some months now.  It&#8217;s been bugging me. I couldn&#8217;t seem to find the sweet spot between drive wheel tension and draw in tension.  My poly cord and scotch tension combo wasn&#8217;t working. I tied on a double drive cord. Nope, that&#8217;s not it either. I changed out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1276</link>
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		<title>To Split or Not to Split&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is a result of discussions I have had with several people in the recent past on this topic. The intent of this post to clarify some misconceptions about whether to split top or not. Actually, this post has been ruminating in my brain for quite a while now.  While I was cleaning up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1260</link>
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		<title>Scarf Progress 6 &#8211; Fini!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is all that was left of the ball of yarn after I casted off the last stitch. I was really sweating it there for a few minutes.  How much was left? Not enough to register on my scale.  But that could be anything less than 2 grams.  I didn&#8217;t break out the niddy noddy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1252</link>
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		<title>Scarf Progress 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Swatch done.
Yes, it&#8217;s knitted lace. Not much of a surprise there, is it?
The top of the diamond is darker than the bottom. This is because the color of the fleece varied lock by lock.  The swatch shows definite bands of color, creating a variegated yarn. I like it.
The swatch was pro forma. It didn&#8217;t really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1243</link>
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		<title>Scarf Progress 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Above: Skein 1 (lower) &#38; 2 (upper) on silk handkerchief, all dyed with hazelnut leaves. (See Progress 3 for details.)
Left: Before and after dyeing. On the card: left is before washing/dyeing/fulling; right is after. In skeins: before is the bottom skein; after is the top skein.
Yarn Specs (skein #2):
Weight: 40 grams*
Yardage: 170 yards (1925 ypp**)
WPI: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1222</link>
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		<title>Great Weekend!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
This is where I spent my long weekend. 2.5 glorious days of playing with wool with Deb Menz.  This all started at SOAR last fall.  I had the 3 hour Plying for Color workshop with Deb and 3 hours just barely scratched the surface.
I would have just left it at that. Wishful thinking for things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1209</link>
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		<title>Dye and Scarf Progress 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might have guessed from the previous 2 posts that I had been thinking about whether I want to dye the spun yarn before knitting or leaving it natural.  The natural is pretty, but I&#8217;m not one to let an opportunity to play with natural colors pass. Part of the scarf competition rule is that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1199</link>
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		<title>Spun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have finally finished spinning and plying the moorit merino. Next, a soak in alum and then the dye bath.
Now, on to the homework spinning for Deb Menz class next weekend.
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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1194</link>
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		<title>Nuts.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I looked out my kitchen window, I see the suckers from the hazelnut tree popping out everywhere. Hmm. I wonder what color it produces? A quick search online comes up with nothing. Wait, there&#8217;s a small reference to hazelnuts used to produce a red dye in Turkish weavings. There&#8217;s not a lot of detail, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1181</link>
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		<title>Poppies on my mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember this?

It came from this&#8230;

Which came from this&#8230;

And look what&#8217;s across the street&#8230;

You think they&#8217;ll notice the missing blooms when they wake up some morning?
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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1176</link>
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		<title>Scarf Progress 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Along with the spinning, I&#8217;ve been playing with my scarf design. I had an inkling of what I wanted to achieve. I charted it out to see what it might look like. So far so good. Then I casted on a sample. For the sample, I just use some scrap yarn that I had handy. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1163</link>
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		<title>Scarf Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spun 40 g of singles (52 wpi) on on my drop spindle thus far. These were spun directly from the flicked locks, using the kitten brush. I spun it all from the tip, and will ply from the butt. This also meant that, when winding the singles off of the spindle, I needed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1152</link>
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		<title>On Knitting Socks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grace has suddenly become interested in knitting socks. In all the years of watching me knit socks, she has had absolutely no interest. But in December, she fondled the KnitPick&#8217;s Essential Kettle Dyed Sock yarn and made some humming noises. A couple of weeks ago, she asked if I was going to go to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1144</link>
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		<title>Socks!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first pair of socks of 2009. Quite a different pace from last year. I started these socks back in December, I think. I remember working on these while Grace and family were up for a visit.
Yarn: KnitPicks Essential Kettled Dyed Sock Yarn, 2 50gm balls
Color: Eggplant
Needles: US #1 / 2.25mm
Construction Notes: Toe up from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1139</link>
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		<title>Leaving Whidbey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grace asked me yesterday if it was hard to leave the island.  Let me just show you this picture of Mt. Baker, taken from the ferry on my way back to the mainland.

What do you think?
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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1135</link>
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		<title>Spin-In Wrap Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I won this basket of goodies from the raffle at the Whidbey Island Spin-In on Saturday.  On Saturday, I won both a door prize (a &#8220;handle&#8221; for my ball winder in cocobolo and padauk) and the raffle.  My friend, Karen, walked away with both raffle prizes on Sunday, along with the door prize on Saturday.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1130</link>
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		<title>Deception Pass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Friday&#8217;s walk. 

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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1129</link>
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		<title>Quick Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new wheel is fabulous. The weather is gorgeous. Good friends are even better.  Reminds me of the MasterCard ad.  Wheel&#8230;$$$, Shuttle&#8230;$, Good friends, pricelsss.
I arrived on the island on time. Thank goodness for priority boarding for the shuttle, or I would have been delayed and missed my dinner engagement.
Karen &#38; Barrie met me at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1122</link>
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		<title>Heading North</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I should be on the island by evening.  Tomorrow, I&#8217;m picking up my Watson Wheel! This time, we are not giving UPS a chance. I will be meeting James just this side of the US/Canada border for the delivery.  Since James is delivering the wheel directly, the wheel will be mostly put together. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1120</link>
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		<title>Spindle Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spinning Jill on a spindle reminded me how much fun spindles are, and portable. It&#8217;s easy to tuck a spindle and a bit of fluff in your purse/bag and pull it out whenever. And to top it all off, Kristine gave me one of her fun little pouches of fiber last week at the weaving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1114</link>
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		<title>Spinning Jill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I picked and washed about 8 oz of Jill.  The post wash and dry weight of Jill was just a hair over 5 oz.  That&#8217;s not a whole lot of loss.  I would have expected more loss due to grease for a merino.  But this is a pristine fleece.  I found very little vegetable matter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1102</link>
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		<title>A little digression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know how sometimes things seem to align themselves in such a way that everywhere you turn, the same theme pops up everywhere?  The repetition makes you think that the universe is trying to tell you something.
My hair stylist has been telling me for years that I should shampoo less.  I used to shampoo my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1089</link>
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		<title>Earth Hour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earth Hour is today from 20:30 &#8211; 21:30 (or 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm for those not on the 24 hour clock).
How will you spend it?
Although, I do find it a bit odd that they suggest on their front page that people upload things to the internet during Earth Hour. Doesn&#8217;t that sort of defeat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1094</link>
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		<title>Weaving Retreat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Would you believe that I only took 2 pictures at the weaving retreat with Judith this past week? And they are both of the sunset. Both are lovely, but this one is oh so dramatic.

The first few days were windy, cold and drizzly, but then the sun came out.  The last day or so was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1080</link>
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		<title>Gone Weaving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little weaving retreat with Judith.
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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1075</link>
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		<title>Geeking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moving a blog isn&#8217;t something that should be taken lightly. Don&#8217;t do as I did.
While waiting for a new build from the development team (of one), I decided to poke around a bit. I&#8217;ve been meaning to move the blog off to its own domain for years. Why today? Don&#8217;t know.
A quick whois shows that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1064</link>
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		<title>Meet Jill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weekends ago, I ransacked my garage for the lamb fleece. I found it. It&#8217;s a California Red lamb fleece. While it&#8217;s beautiful, it&#8217;s also not for next to skin wear that I would want for the scarf project.
A quick call to Kathleen convinced me that there was no hope for it. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1047</link>
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		<title>Moving Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve moved this blog off to its own domain.  Please update your links and/or RSS feeds.
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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1038</link>
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		<title>It just followed me home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Rick Reeves Frame Wheel, in walnut.

I haven&#8217;t seen any like this one before, where in place of dowel joinery, this has knobs.  The knobs can be unscrewed and the wheel can be taken apart.  I&#8217;ve taken all the knobs off, not to take the wheel apart, but to clean and oil/wax the parts underneath.
I bought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1033</link>
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		<title>A New Challenge!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you seen this?  Interweave&#8217;s Spin-Off Magazine is having celebrating the International Year of Fibers by offering up a contest.  You need to process the fiber from scratch to a completed scarf of your own design&#8230;all by May 20, 2009.  (Thankfully, you don&#8217;t need to raise nor sheer the sheep yourself, but I think you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1021</link>
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		<title>Stitches West</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I braved Stitches Market to look for more Noro Silk Garden Sock to finish the shawl. I made a list with 3 items on it.  I hoped that it would keep me on the straight and narrow. Get in. Buy the stuff. Get out with minimal damage to my wallet and psyche.
I was in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1019</link>
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		<title>Still Slogging Along</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m starting to get worried.  The shawl is not yet at half the depth that I want, but I&#8217;m almost half way through the yarn.  It&#8217;ll take much more than that to get to the desired depth.  I think I&#8217;m going to have to hit the Stitches West Market tomorrow.  Darn.
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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1016</link>
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		<title>This Can&#8217;t be good..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got out of the house this morning and saw these markings at the end of the driveway, directly behind my car. And the next photo was taken around the corner. I thought the city was finish with our block last summer. 
(This is my first attempt at posting via the Wordpress iPhone app. See failed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1014</link>
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		<title>Still Plugging Along</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Garter stitch shawl on 3.00mm shawl is deathly dull, no matter how pretty the yarn is.
12 bobbins of singles? 6 down.  So far, over 1400 yards of light worsted weight yarn.  I think I will have well over 2400 yards by the time I&#8217;m done.  More than enough for a sweater.
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		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1010</link>
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		<title>Singles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Do you know what this is?  This is the bottom of a capacious Rovings bag.  It seemed bottomless while I was spinning it.  Now, it looks like this:

12 bobbins of singles.  I spun all of the singles on my Schacht Matchless with the Woolee Winder.  All on the same bobbin, and then wound off onto [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/1002</link>
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		<title>Shawl Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(This post was started while I was still in Washington.  I&#8217;m back in California now.)
All of my reference books are back in California, but I want to cast on now.  Thankfully, there are a lot of excellent references on the internet.  I have always wanted a Faroese styled shawl.  Something that will sit and stay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/982</link>
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		<title>Lemming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the classes that I took this year at Madrona was Joan Schrouder&#8217;s Lace Essentials. I took the class because I have heard so many wonderful things about Joan and her teaching style.  I have long admired her patience and thoughtful responses to questions posted on the various knit lists and forums.  So I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/977</link>
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		<title>Back to life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past four days at Madrona was a wonderful way to wrap up my visit to Washington.  It was nice to relax and erase all the problems and heartache of the past few weeks.  Great friends, good food &#38; wine, great conversations, great instructors, wonderful handknits.  What more could one ask for?  There are no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/970</link>
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		<title>Madrona, here I come!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is set aside for getting myself ready for Madrona.  Forget about the unfinished house (slowly but surely getting there, I hope).  Forget about work projects (conference call on Tuesday signals the end of the current project/phase).  Forget about the rats in hedges that have been chewing up my car hoses (signed contract with pest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/966</link>
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		<title>Inconsolable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t felt this much disappointment and heaviness of heart in a very long time.  You see, my long awaited Watson Marie spinning wheel was dropped off on my doorstep at the cottage this afternoon.  And I do mean dropped.  Somewhere during its trip from Ontario, Canada, to my little cottage on Whidbey Island in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fibermusings.net/archives/963</link>
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