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Well it is here, the last Wednesday of this year!
I hope all of your festive events of last week were wonderful :)
We are still having marvelous weather here, but at least it is cool outside so it does kinda feel like it could be winter.
These are my projects from this week:
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First up is my shawl I have finally got to the red bit of my cake of yarn :)
I am just about at the border of the shawl and am hoping that I manage to finish this project before the new year.
I am still enjoying this project very much, although the rows are incredibly long right now so progress is pretty slow.
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My sock yarn for the 2016 Sock-Along has been caked and is ready to go :)
I am so thrilled that so many of you will be joining me in this challenge, I can't wait to see all the gorgeous pairs of handmade goodness that will get created over the next year.
I will be starting off with a pair of Jaywalker socks and am knitting it with some Hand-dyed sock yarn which I got from a local dyer.
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My next project which will be started as soon as the shawl is off the needles is Avalanche.
I will be knitting this also in some gorgeous locally dyed merino singles.
As you may see a pattern emerging I do plan on making a couple of my projects with locally purchased, hand-dyed, hand-spun yarn in an attempt to support my local community.
Today, I have also managed to start with a warp for some cute looking Kitchen towels.
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I am hoping to have my new loom set up in the next month or so and this will be the first project I make once it is ready :)
Reading Wise: I received some new titles from Jas for Christmas and jumped right into the first of these which is Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult. So far I am enjoying the story.
What have you been up to this week?
Don't forget to drop by on Friday and share your FOs of this week with me, I look forward to seeing what you manage to complete.
I will be sharing this post with all of my creative friends for this week, so drop on over there for some great inspiration.
Have a Happy New Year!
I look forward to seeing you again on the other side.
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