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What kind of fiber is it? Wool or silk you can probably spit graft.
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i want to start knitting again, but i also want to read for fun and the weather is hot as balls so i cant touch anything made of yarn.
Make some cotton washcloths. There are free patterns all over the web, and that will wet your knitting whistle until the weather gets cooler. Also, they don’t take a lot of time away from books. Good luck and welcome home, knitter!
That was a “totally different” situation, Inhofe told MSNBC, arguing that the Sandy aid was filled with pork. There were “things in the Virgin Islands. They were fixing roads there and putting roofs on houses in Washington, D.C.”
“Everyone was getting in and exploiting the tragedy that took place,” he said. “That won’t happen in Oklahoma.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.): Tornado aid ‘totally different’ from Hurricane Sandy aid (via brooklynmutt)
Totally on-topic, perhaps Senator Inhofe can explain why Oklahoma, a land-locked state, has two taxpayer-funded facilities under the command of the U.S. Coast Guard.
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This is so DEVO but if we here at FYD, earn a 1000 followers - we will prank call Mutato.
Enough said.
Huskies make the best faces
Ermagerd Huskies.
I had an idea
You might consider mosaic knitting (google it) which only uses one color at a time and slips the other. Makes very geometric designs. Also machine knitting. :D
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Just in case anyone thought I was kidding about never having too much yarn. There are multiples hiding behind the piles, the baskets on the bottom are full of yarn that needs to be sorted & partial skeins and I have several bags of more recently purchased yarn that isn’t picture.
I’m in the middle of organizing my office so try not to hate on all my random crap. lol
I like that you caked all of it. I might do that with my stash. Makes it much easier to see what you’ve got. Thanks for posting this!
I swear if I see hair in the knitting tag again, I’m going to blow a gasket.
THAT HAS NOTHING KNITTING TO DO WITH IT. There’s no yarn, no needles, no crochet hooks, no scarves, no sweaters, no work in progress, no finished projects, heck there’s not even a braid.
Just curly hair.Why do people over tag things? If what you’re tagging is not in the picture or description, DON’T TAG IT! It’s disappointing and angering.
Are you sure you want to ignore WaxLiamOfficial? Okay. It’s a little hand symbol at the top of that post. :D
Turns out “win a lifetime supply of yarn” is one $480.00 gift certificate to Patternworks (shop shown here, also order online) each year for 20 years. I could use more yarn than that, but I’ll take it. :D
1. Be Kind. If this is the one thing I manage to do, I’ve done enough. Kindness may seem like a personality trait, but I think of it more as a habitual spiritual practice. Being kind has taught me that simple, seemingly insignificant human interactions can be profound. It has opened people and their stories to me. And, perhaps most important to my work, being kind has taught me that I know far less than I think I do. Always.
2. Love What You Do. This is not a passive thing, or a happenstance of trying to do what you love. It is a proactive, daily decision to nurture and seek satisfaction in the work I am doing. I think of it like marriage: sometimes it’s easy and simple. Sometimes it’s a daily, grinding decision to love. And sometimes, when you can’t do it any more, the last act of love is walking away.
3. Keep Your Brain Spongy. This is the fun part. I’m a big believer in feeding curiosity, and offering my subconscious mind a cornucopia of ideas. I read history, literature, and ancient Chinese murder mysteries. I feed the birds, train my ear to identify distinct birdsong, and try to learn the differences between sparrow species (almost all are the same buffy, brown color). I study physics, the latest developments in the modeling of protein-folding, and the genetic underpinnings of personality. I dig big holes in the yard, play and talk with animals, and right now I’m thinking about buying a metal detector. I am never bored.
4. Do the Next, Most Interesting Thing. This is a corollary of keeping your brain spongy, but it requires a very loose hold on one’s life-plans. In fact, I do very little life-planning at all; for better or worse, no career path can hold my attention for very long. So when people ask me how I became an NPR correspondent at such a young age, (or for that matter, how I ended up with a bit part in a Mexican telenovela) my best answer is that I didn’t really mean to. I just did a long series of the next, most interesting things. It’s kind of an informed version of winging-it.
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