Author Archives: Jen

Knitter on tour, part 3 (part 1!)

(Saturday was a really long day, involving visits to 10 LYSs. So, to avoid this post reaching novella status, I’ll be posting it in 2 parts – here’s the first half of Saturday). Either I was wrong about traffic/navigation mishaps coming in threes (and instead, they come in fives), or two of mine from yesterday [...]

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Knitter on tour, part 2

If bad things happen in threes, I should be done with navigation difficulties for this LYS Tour. On the surface, my plans for today weren’t all that ambitious – just 8 LYSs, 6 of them in Seattle. The hard part was that with Steve back at work, I also had to handle school drop off [...]

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Knitter on tour

The 2013 Northwest LYS Tour, that is. (Formerly the Puget Sound LYS Tour; apparently they’ve decided it needed a new name since 2 of the LYSs this year are almost in Canada, nowhere near the Sound!) I love LYS tours. I love them so much that last year, I did 2 of them…on the same [...]

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Magpie Knitter and Fledgling – a design partnership

It’s been hard to settle down to work these days. As the kids are getting older, they’re getting busier – both now play tennis (which means lessons 3 times a week, since they’re not in the same class), and Lexie’s still doing gymnastics twice a week along with preschool the other 3 days. She’s desperate [...]

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Finding comfort in crochet

It’s been a rough couple of days here. On Friday, I had to make the tough decision to put our 12-year-old calico girl, Miri, to sleep. The vet discovered lymphoma that had developed and spread very quickly, and she had crashed hard. Treatment was highly unlikely to help and more likely to hurt, and just [...]

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