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New-fangled food for thought

Posted in grannies, knitting, musings on February 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »

When I talked about my last visit to the local yarn shop, I forgot to mention another difference that struck me between my knitting experience and the other women at the shop. My knitting experience owes a massive debt to technology. Almost my entire sum of knowledge in this area comes via the [...]

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Eureka! I finally get it - Pt 2

Posted in grannies, knitting, lys on February 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »

My second Eureka is of a non-technical nature and came today (well yesterday, now) when I stopped by my local yarn store (lys), and I have to say that the lys is still a phenomenon to me. I’m absolutely certain that I had been in many yarn shops before I started knitting, but until I [...]

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Fugitive knitters

Posted in grannies, knitting, random weird on February 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »

So you think yor stash is unruly? Try over a million in knitting debts.Nuns on the run as their big knitting debts unravel | World Wide Weird | The Australian

FIFTY-FIVE nuns have fled their convent in northern Greece after running up more than €600,000 ($1,006,500) in debts when their in-house woollens factory went bankrupt.
Unknown to [...]

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