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Sip Sip Knit Retreat 2016
July 22, 2016

Sip Sip Knit Retreat 2016!

Last weekend 4 teachers, 55 knitters, and 10 bottles of wine got together for one AMAZINGLY fun weekend of knitting, sipping, learning, and laughing. I was so honored to join Melissa Leapman, Carol Sulcoski and Brooke Nico in our very first Sip Sip Knit Retreat 2016!

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Sip, Sip, Knit Retreat
May 7, 2016July 22, 2016

St Louis Knitting Retreat – Sip Sip Knit!

Sip Sip Knit: A “Flight” of Learning St Louis Knitting Retreat! July 15 – 17th, St Louis, Mo Join Melissa Leapman, Patty Lyons, Brooke Nico and Carol Sulcoski for 2 days of learning + an evening of wine, knitting and laughter.

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April 16, 2016April 14, 2016

A Trip to the Rochester KnittingGuild

This year I spent my birthday with the Rochester Knitting Guild. If a girl has to be away from her hubby on her birthday this is a pretty great place to be. I was surrounded by wonderful knitters who were funny, nice and talented . . . and there was cake involved.

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BOOKMARK IT - Knitting Tip!⁠⠀ Measuring withou BOOKMARK IT - Knitting Tip!⁠⠀
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Normally I would say avoid measuring your WIP by trusting your finished row gauge and keep track of rows. But sometimes we want to measure how much we knitted so far. If your ruler is nowhere to be found, here are some alternatives to measure without it.⁠⠀
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In one week we will see the end of the most toxic In one week we will see the end of the most toxic presidency in America's history. But make no mistake, this is not a reset and all will be restored. Trump did not spring forth, fully formed out of no where. He is only the product of a country that is built on white supremacy. Getting rid of Trump is not cutting off the head of the monster, it is only getting rid of the monster's baby.⁠
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We must not give into calls of "this is the time to move on", or "now is the time for healing". Healing can only begin after a diagnosis of the disease. We have to look just as hard at what lead our country to this place as we do to what we do next. We can start to heal once the cancer is cut out.⁠
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People are already scrambling to rewrite history and to reframe what happened. After the lies of "it was Antifa" failed, the "what about isms" started.⁠
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I have had many DMs in the past week that I have ignored, but the most popular question / accusation went along the lines of "why are you okay with violence when it came to BLM, but not these protestors?".⁠ (psst. The insurrectionists that invaded the Capitol weren't protestors).
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Set aside the reality that the overwhelming majority of BLM protests were peaceful (93% according to a study released in the fall), set aside the outrage that PEACEFUL BLM protestors have been beaten, rounded up and arrested, while men and women with weapons who invaded the nation's capitol, were simply allowed to walk out unharmed, let's talk about intent.⁠
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This accusation of outrage hypocrisy uses the same spurious argument that gun rights advocates used to use in the 90s: that cars kill more people than guns (a fact that is no longer true, FYI). Set aside the fact that cars are REGULATED in order to reduce deaths (seatbelts, speed limits, testing before licensing, age minimums etc), a car's PURPOSE is not to kill. 
The PURPOSE of BLM protests are to protest police violence. The PURPOSE of the Capitol insurrection was to overthrow a legal election.
So please don't express your "shock" to me that this could have happened. We put ourselves on this trajectory. 
We have to LOOK at our past and present before we can change our future.
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Slipped stitch selvedge, when to use and when NOT to use!⁠⠀
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FINALLY the sweater arrived. In November I was try FINALLY the sweater arrived. In November I was trying madly to finish all the billions of videos for Affiknity while i finished knitting up the Affiknity Jr for @francescarnyc adorable daughter. It all took way longer than I expected but on Nov 29, I finally packed it up and shipped it 1 day priority express. I then checked the tracking daily while my package settled somewhere (with millions of other people's packages) in limbo. On Dec 24 I got a simple message from my friend. "It's here. It's a Christmas miracle". Yep, 26 days later, my 1 day priority package arrived. But how adorable do these two look in their Affiknity Jr cardi and pullover??⁠⠀
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