Works In Progress

Lorena on January 21st, 2012

The problem with taking pictures of white shiny things is that they look very flat and white and shiny. I tried to soften it with a filter, but … meh. Clearly I am going to have to work to make the lotion look enticing! This is the massage lotion, already in use at West Family [...]

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Lorena on August 5th, 2011

Whether I’m watching her to make sure she doesn’t nom the yarn… or she’s watching me to see if I’ll go away so she can nom the yarn, I’m not sure. But still.   The rest of my 2011 daily photos can be viewed here.

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Lorena on July 29th, 2011

The rest of my 2011 daily photos can be viewed here.

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Lorena on June 4th, 2011

Every time I sat down to blog in May – because a lot of things happened I wanted to share – I kept getting distracted by shiny things. Like this new bird, a house finch, which I’d never seen until this year. I spent a lot of time in May watching it and it’s mate [...]

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Lorena on March 28th, 2011

OK, so back around Thanksgiving or so, I thought “wouldn’t it be great if I knitted special unique snowflakes Christmas stockings for everybody in my family for Christmas?” If I stuck to the people who come to Christmas morning that would mean I’d need… like… nine. Tops. And then I showed *remarkable* restraint by not [...]

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Lorena on January 10th, 2011

You know how some projects start out with the best of intentions, but just seem… cursed from the start? Yeah. This is one of those stories. Back around the beginning of November, one of my favorite yarn companies contacted me to see if I’d be willing to knit them a sample. HELLS YES, was my [...]

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Lorena on November 26th, 2010

Just a little knitting I’ve been working on. Nothing special. The rest of my 2010 photos can be viewed here.

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Lorena on September 25th, 2010

I don’t have nearly as much time for knitting as I used to, but am enjoying the time I have, more. The rest of my 2010 photos can be viewed here.

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Lorena on June 18th, 2010

The rest of my 2010 photos can be viewed here.

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Lorena on June 13th, 2010

I am starting to think I have Gathered Pullover curse. Remember what happened to the first one? Now I’m making a second one. – I didn’t have enough yarn, so ordered two more skeins. They were not the same dye lot. – They’re very noticiably not the same dye lot. – I alternated and knit [...]

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