I just finished my latest creation. I took it with me on my last trip and worked on it on the plane, and I perfectly gaged how big it could be before I would run out of yarn.
This is all I have left:

Surely that is a thing of beauty.
Tagsplanning, pure unadulterated luck, yarn

Author: Parallax [...]

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Download pattern here: Josephine.
Originally published in Magknits, March 2008

This sweater has much to recommend it: it is warm and cosy and a fast enough knit to be ready before it gets too warm to need it. The cowl can be worn buttoned or open as an oversized collar. There is a minimum of actual direction [...]

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I was away this week in Washington DC, and the cherry blossoms were in bloom, just as they should be. I walked around the mall and here is proof that I was actually there:

The weather was beautiful. I walked so far trying to see everything.
Now I am back in Saskatchewan, and this morning [...]

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Here is the first PDF of the patterns I published in Magknits of the last few years:
Kaleidoscope
If you are interested in the yarn I used, please see Princess Farms’ website.

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Tags: buttons, cardigans, crochet, design, free patterns, [...]

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Perhaps you already know, but Magknits is no more. I am so sad. I loved Magknits — it was published every month and had the latest publication deadlines of any knitting publication I have found so far.
If anyone wants to find any of the patterns in the next few days or weeks, you [...]

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Sometimes you don’t have those perfect buttons to complete the project you are working on and sometimes you don’t want to go out to get any, or you live in Saskatchewan and today is Sunday and nowhere likely to sell buttons is open. Or maybe, just maybe you are aesthetically opposed to spending money [...]

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