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	<title>A Tale of Two Yarns</title>
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		<title>Small Projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Vogue stockings are finished for all intents and purposes.  I still have to experiment with the elastic in the ribbing to see if that will do or if I just want a ribbon to use as a garter, but the knitting itself is done.  They are very cute, however, with the current width of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleeves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made a good deal of progress on the second sleeve of my Spanish Moss coat this morning.  Still a ways to go, but I&#8217;m really looking forward to starting to assemble the pieces.  I&#8217;m also getting pretty motivated by the change in weather; this coat would be the perfect weight for the morning chill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reaching the Turning Point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finished Vogue stocking number one!  Yay! And I&#8217;ve already reached the heel of the second.  Now this was my first fiddly bit with the first one&#8230;the first time my lace pattern went a bit wonky.  I was, therefore, determined that it would not happen again.  No dice.  Same spot, different problem, similar effect.  Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The great thing about yarn is&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s oh so portable.  I&#8217;ve had the most insane week at work, with a field trip, the spring musical production, and evening class&#8230;and then I came down with a head cold to make it all even more complicated. Yet, my projects were with me all the way.  On the field trip, I started my second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WIP limbo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m feeling the need to finish a project already!  Of course, nothing is even close to being wearable. My first Vogue stocking is nearing completion, but I need to finish a whole other sock before I can wear them.  I am getting very close to the point where I want to try them on to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got caught up with the Zarabel sweater this evening, and I&#8217;m so much happier with it now.  Those panels are now slanting the right direction. After rereading the directions for the decreases, I&#8217;ve decided that it really is the directions&#8217; fault.  It gives instructions for the right side decrease first, then gives instructions for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Un-knitting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;ve been making fantastic progress on my Zarabel sweater.  See.. And then, I realized that I had done the decreases on the front stockinette sections wrong so that the lace panels on the sides were sloping towards the neckline instead of the ones closer to the center sloping towards the sides.  BIG difference to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksnthreads.com/crochet/2010/05/un-knitting/</link>
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		<title>Lace success&#8230;maybe.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I needed a new small project to take with me this past weekend and decided that I was ready to tackle the Vogue stockings again.  I&#8217;ve got a little more lace experience under my belt now, and had gained a new strategy for dealing with those pesky k3togs.  (The Zarabel sweater pattern has you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksnthreads.com/crochet/2010/05/lace-success-maybe/</link>
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		<title>The Doldrums</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at that point in my two major projects when progress seems infinitesimal.  It doesn&#8217;t help that they are both projects that have naturally slow progress (at least for me); the Zarabel sweater is knit, which already slows me down, with lace panels and cable panels that slow me down a bit further; the Spanish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksnthreads.com/crochet/2010/04/the-doldrums/</link>
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		<title>Empty Space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m making go0d progress on the Zarabel sweater, but I&#8217;ve run into my first frustration (aside from not being able to join my cast on edge without twisting it).  As I&#8217;m working my way up the chart for the side panels, the stitches have steadily decreased, creating empty spaces in the chart.  I find [...]]]></description>
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