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Another rowdy Friday night

White pizza and The Producers tonight.






Settle in after the big snow and a busy week.

My Kauni cardigan is getting a sleeve!


Why, yes that is a new sofa. Thank you for noticing.

We finally parted with the 18 year old sofa. I think we got our moneys worth.

(I truly understand why our parents have ancient sofas. There's no point rushing into anything, is there?)



Georgie likes it very much.



I've also been spinning up some merino/alpaca/silk I dyed last year.

Funny how two bobbins can look so different?












Paul and I headed out for a walk after work. It's in the teens here today. All the snow will start to melt again tomorrow - it's due for the upper thirties.


Our old topless silo.




View from the Waterford bridge.










Paul took more amazing bird photos this weekend.

Here's Mrs. Red-bellied woodpecker.

Sunny Saturday

We had fresh snow through the night and woke to a sparkly sunny morning.


We sat in the sun, drank our coffee, listened to Radio Heartland and perused the morning paper.

Paul had plenty of help when it came time to do the sudoku puzzle.





I did a little spinning before beginning the work of the day.

This is the merino/tencel that came from Chameleon Colorworks last month. I'm spinning it from the fold in an attempt to make it a fluffy laceweight. Is a fluffy laceweight even possible?


The Lopi cardigan has the ends woven in and is blocking.

There are two stores in town that sell buttons. Neither had anything even remotely appropriate.

So now it's either drive a minimum of 50 miles roundtrip (for buttons!!) or order online. Rats! Should have thought of this a while ago, eh?


While putting away the needles I used for the Lopi, I noticed these beauties. My size 1 Addi Turbos with definite kinks in 'em.

I don't even know how this happened. They've been hanging in an organizer with all the other circular needles. None of the others are damaged.

Freaky.

Well, as long as I'm ordering buttons, I'll may have to shop needles too...

Late to the party

I return to steek, yet again.

The Kauni cardigan is ready to have the sleeve steeks cut.

The sleeve stitches will be picked up around the steek and knit down to the cuff.

I've always sewn my steeks on the sewing machine, as I did last week for the Lopi cardigan.

For this cardigan, I've decided to try a crochet steek. I took the instructions from Meg Swansen's Sweaters from Camp . On the interwebs, a really good tutorial is on Euny Jang's old blog, See Euny Knit.

The visible yellow is the crocheted steek.




And I'm late to the party. This is a great way to steek! Why have I never tried this before?!

Look at that nice neat edge after I've cut. I'm very pleased! This a technique I'll permanently add to my repertoire.






Here's the newest colorway from the crockpot.

Yes, I can use something other than blues and greens!






Personal growth? Perhaps, but not of a very important variety. But I'll take it wherever it comes...


Hey Minnesotans! Did you all have this fabulous sunrise today?

There was a column of light extended far into the sky. Gorgeous.

I didn't take the camera with me to work. I tried to take a pic with my cell phone with very little success.

Paul took this photo before he left for work. Like I said, I'm going to have to wrestle him for the camera!