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Oh, BeHAVE! And Let’s All Watch a Movie Together
Dear Kay, I don’t know WHAT is going on, but these outbursts–congressman Joe Wilson, Serena Williams, Kanye West, even Federer!–are getting on my NERVES. What is with people? Whoopsy–getting a little...
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Almost Ready to Go
Dear Kay, VERY rainy day, most excellent. I’m in the midst of the Constant Hem, and I turn on the radio only to find myself listening to a two-hour NPR call-in fest, On Point with Tom Ashbrook, all...
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Living the Mad Men Dream
Dear Kay, If you have been watching Mad Men (and if you haven’t, go ahead and start), you have probably been mesmerized by all the weird style. I’m loving it. The whole show looks so mannered, so odd....
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Clarissa O Clarisssssssssaaaaaaaaaa
Dear Kay, Remember Clarissa? From Issue 6 of The Knitter? The uncharacteristically decorative cardigan I started a few weeks ago? My awesome new BED JACKET? Well, it’s done. But getting to Done took so...
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Don’t Stand and Watch
Dear Kay, Top Tennis Tip #2 from my spring break tennis experience: “Constant Movement: Hit and move—don’t stand and watch.” I am beginning to think that tennis and knitting are the same thing. The...
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Must Have Relaxed Grip
Dear Kay, I keep looking at that volcano plume thing from Iceland and marveling at how easily it derailed just about every airport in Europe. SHUT DOWN! I have this weird feeling of...
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Love Means Never Having To PSSO
Dear Ann, Announcement: I’ve finished knitting the 210 very long rows of Volt. I am now COMMENCING I-CORD. It’s frightfully exciting. Grace Anna Farrow’s instructions instruct, in the elegantly...
View ArticleOh. Snap.
Dear Ann, Remember how we were prattling on in our latest Problem Ladies column over at Twist Collective? About how we hate the crochet chain provisional cast on because it always worms around and we...
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February Is Shake Your Bon-Bon Month
Dear Kay, January’s Get Rid of 50 Things a Day project was basically a success, in the sense that I feel better about 1,500 things not being inside my house anymore. It was not perfect, by any means–I...
View ArticleClip & Save: How to Evenly Space Buttons
Dear Ann, One of life’s perplexing questions is how to do a good job when a cardigan pattern instructs you to “evenly space” the buttons on a button band. Patterns tell you to do it, but they don’t...
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