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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November 2006



FO: Pond Ice Socks

Mon, 11/27/06 7:11 A GMT-07
Cold has come to Cambridge, and I couldn't be happier about it.  P and I went running at Fresh Pond on Saturday and the grass was covered in frost, and puddles had thin layers of ice on them.  Of course, it warmed up enough for tha
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Hope for the Season

Fri, 11/24/06 6:14 A GMT-07
Just back from Thanksgiving in Connecticut with P., my parents, sister and her fiance, and family friends.  My Thanksgiving included: a fire in the woodstove, puzzles and cookies, arranging flowers, knitting, cutting parsnips, turnips
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Pond Ice and the matching game

Mon, 11/20/06 9:42 A GMT-07
P was working all weekend, so I had plenty of time to finish the first Pond Ice sock.  I am loving the Socks that Rock Falcon's Eye - as soon as I bound off the first sock I started the second.  I had to use EZ's sewn bind-off again
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Smelling the roses

Fri, 11/17/06 2:44 P GMT-07
I am still dealing with my directionlessness, but it sure does help to know that so many of you have felt the same way.  I am trying to put together a multi-faceted plan right now, and that in itself helps. So does having a clean kitchen. I
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New socks and My cat's new habit

Wed, 11/15/06 12:19 P GMT-07
Finally I found a stitch pattern that works with my Socks that Rock Falcon's Eye.It is a variation of a feather and fan stitch.  With 65 stitches on the needles the colors look like they stripe rather than spiral.  The yarn is amazing.&
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Virginia Whirlwind

Tue, 11/14/06 7:54 A GMT-07
What is with you people? Last week no one was posting anything - I would check and check and check.  Then I go down to Virginia for four days, come back and I have 250 posts to read?So yes, P and I drove down to Virginia on Friday - the wonderfu
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Unemployed in Greenland

Thu, 11/09/06 10:08 A GMT-07
Whaddya know?  I finished my Socktoberfest socks!Pattern: Creeping Vines Socks by Evelyn Skae (PDF warning!)Yarn: Froehlich Wolle, Special Blauband, color 64, 2 skeins from Village Wools, NMNeedles: Size onesModifications: Short row toes, heels,
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Be a citizen

Tue, 11/07/06 8:16 A GMT-07
I did my duty today and voted - but I was a little disheartened to see that many of the positions for my local government only had one candidate running.  Choice is not choice when there is no choice!I was all prepared for the long lines and sem
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Lovely Sunday

Sun, 11/05/06 9:29 A GMT-07
Just back from a 4 mile run at Fresh Pond here in Cambridge - now I am making ginger whole wheat waffles! YUM.  What a great weekend - on Thursday night I drove down to Bridgeport CT to stay with my sister, and then we went into NYC to look at g
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A Halloween Miracle

Wed, 11/01/06 12:50 P GMT-07
I am not sure how it happened, but a sock was finished!It must have been the Great Pumpkin!  I must start on the second one right now.  I am using Froehlich Wolle Special Blauband yarn, and as a superwash and 80%/20% nylon it feels more &qu
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