nepenthe's misadventures

Name: Meg
Location: E. Lansing, MI

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On the Needles 2009


Custard Baby Sweater Redux


No Purl Monkeys

Garter Stitch Alpaca Scarf

Vestee

Turn a Square

Pink Baby Bolero

Minimalist Cardigan

Chevron Socks

Seascape Stole

Felicity

Opus Spicatum

Baktus Scarf


February Baby Sweater


Midnight Squirrel Mittens


Ivelet


Claudia Hat


The Boy Hat


Marlene Socks


Kokopelli Boy Hat


Odessa Hat #1


Odessa Hat #2


Garter Yoke Cardigan


Monster Hat


70s Kitchen Explosion Socks


El Hatto Rosa


Kindle Kozy

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October 2006



The end of Socktoberfest

Tue, 10/31/06 12:00 A GMT-07
The only scary thing at my house is that I didn't finish my Socktoberfest socks. (Not only did I not finish the pair, but I haven't even finished the FIRST sock.)  Is it the same as breaking a mirror, walking under a ladder, or
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100 grams of bunny love

Mon, 10/30/06 1:22 P GMT-07
I never showed you what I got at Webs when Jenny was here, did I?  It was in the Wayback (the warehouse, where better women than I have been overcome with yarn-love) that I found the boxes...The cellophane picture window entranced me..
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Norovember

Sat, 10/28/06 12:00 A GMT-07
Yup. Another incentive to use up stash....this time, three beautiful skeins of Noro Silk Garden.  The skeins have been knit into several projects, and promptly ripped. Maybe now they can find a permanent incarnation?Of course
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Shetland Triangle Lace

Fri, 10/27/06 10:00 A GMT-07
I think lace has gotten under my skin. Christmas gift one is done!  Below is my favorite wedding photograph, taken by my uncle.  P. and I just celebrated our one-year anniversary on October 15th.Pattern: Shetland Triangle, Wr
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Rhinebeck Report

Sun, 10/22/06 1:34 P GMT-07
Back from Rhinebeck and P and I had great fun!  I arrived just in time for the Knit Blogger meetup (funny, knitbloggers were not hard to find at ALL), and recognized many bloggers whom I have read for a long time.  Here is a SMALL portion o
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Rhinebeck Bound

Fri, 10/20/06 8:21 A GMT-07
Tomorrow in the bright and early P and I will be leaving in the rental car for Rhinebeck - my very first.  And boy do I have the first date jitters!  So many bloggers that I have never 'met' that I hope to see, so many tha
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The Best Weekend EVER

Wed, 10/18/06 1:12 P GMT-07
What happens when two bad knit bloggers get together?  They forget their cameras. Yeesh.Jenny flew in from New Mexico to see lil' ole me, and we had such a fabulous yarntastic weekend. We got to Webs, Northampton Wools, Newbury Yarns, a
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Autumn

Fri, 10/13/06 5:15 A GMT-07
Sugar Maple, Kancamagus scenic byway, New HampshireI am so glad that I am home.
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The Brief Life of Mata Hari

Thu, 10/12/06 1:34 P GMT-07
My Socktober socks bit the dust today.  I loved the yarn - Socks that Rock in Falcon's Eye, and I loved the pattern, Craftoholic's Mata Hari Socks.Hello Mata Hari!Goodbye Mata Hari!Err. Hello, Dulce.I have cast on for another sock.
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Cooking my way out of it

Wed, 10/11/06 6:05 A GMT-07
It's funny, isn't it - what therapies work for us?  I decided to start cooking yesterday afternoon, and that helped me feel so much better. (I also had a nice glass of Harvey's Bristol Cream, so that MAY have helped a little.) 
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A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very-Bad-Day Mood

Tue, 10/10/06 6:54 A GMT-07
Not doing so well today - my car got side-swiped while parked on the street sometime on Friday - chipped paint and pinched metal = rust within a few months.  And of course, in a different place on the car than the damage from
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Around Cambridge - The Cobbler

Thu, 10/05/06 2:35 P GMT-07
I went to pick up my boots today from the cobbler. (He isn't an elf. He is Armenian.)  On his business cards he has written:"I will heel you, save your soles, and dye for you."  Now that is a serious cobbler.He did a beau
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'Ru boo-boo

Wed, 10/04/06 6:14 A GMT-07
Don't you just hate it when people run red lights and slam into you? Yeah. Me too.  Had this happened in New Mexico I could have been seriously injured - high speeds are the rule there.  As it was, I was going about 15 mph and she
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Nuthin' comes between me and my squirrels!

Sun, 10/01/06 12:00 A GMT-07
A few years ago I attempted my first intarsia with a little squirrel chart I found in my mom's knitting closet.  I felt the need for some more squirrely action, and decided to jazz up my first mittens:
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