Things have been really busy in our household the past couple of weeks. I can only imagine it will get more so as the baby’s due date draws near… just 10 weeks left! The weekend before last we went to visit my mom as well as my brother and his family.
One of the things we [...]

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Percent bars. Aka progress bars or WIP (Work in Progress) bars. Like this. I’ve been turning these over on the back burner in my head for months and months. I’ve finally come up with a solution so that anybody can make them quickly and easily in any color.
Presenting the…
Percent Bar Maker
Woo hoo! I’m so happy [...]

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It seems frivolous to be moving zeros and ones around while others are suffering so greatly. Especially since it is so close to home. As I watch each one do it’s dance in the Atlantic, I wonder if it will be coming for us. But when we are the fortunate ones, we do what we [...]

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This weekend I received an e-mail from Pier 1 Imports. Nothing unusual about that; I’m on their mailing list by choice because I like to shop there. Anyhow, one of the Featured Items shown in the e-mail was a knit throw. Since I’m a sucker for anything brown, I clicked, and what I saw was [...]

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The free crochet and knit Smart Yarns Patterns that we have all known and loved are available only through September 1, 2005. So print ‘em, save ‘em, download ‘em… whatever, however… but do it now because time is running out!
And don’t count on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, because the patterns may not all be [...]

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