Anna-Lisa Kanick
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Stiches West 2008
My Total Immersion Knitting Experience of the year – I come back fired, inspired, and very, very tired! Okay, the knitting is augmented by some late nights with Sarah and Sasha – my 3rd daughter who conveniently attends Santa Clara… Continue reading
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Madrona FIber Arts Winter Retreat
Sarah and I have been taking classes at Madrona Fiber Arts Winter Retreat for 3 days – and spending our in-between times scouring the yarn market for trouble and temptation. It has been a blast! It is kind of an… Continue reading
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But Can She Knit?
It occurs to me that someone who has not seen me in my leather chair surrounded by yarn may wonder, based upon my heel flap nonsense, whether I have much knitting experience at all. Questions such as “How on earth… Continue reading
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Knitting With The Flu
Sarah and I – and several non-knitting members of the family – have had the flu. Knitting would seem the ideal occupation for someone too achy and weak to rise out of a chair and, say, do the laundry. In… Continue reading
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What Went Wrong
The heel flap was feisty and I was stubborn. It is not done, but it is on the straight and narrow and has every chance of turning out like the heel of the first sock. I gave a great post-battle… Continue reading
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Stepping Forward
It was as I arrived home — through the sloppiest, sleetiest rain Washington can call down upon itself — absolutely fierce with the knowledge that I would have to rip back the heel flap of this flipping sock for the… Continue reading
Warty Bobbles 