Pattern: Le Slouch by Wendy Bernard of Knit & Tonic Yarn: The Fiber Company: Organik in natural (1.6 skeins) Needles: size 8 US, and size 9 US Started: July 23, 2007 Finished: July 24, 2007 Modifications: I knit only 5 inches before the decreases instead of 6; as Wendy recommended for people who want less [...]

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Pattern: Spring Cable Socks by Elinor Gray of Space Kitty Yarn: Louet Sales Gems:Pearls in Aqua (2 skeins) Needles: size 1US Started: July 12, 2007 Finished: July 23, 2007 Modifications: This pattern is written for a man’s foot using a size 2 needle. By switching to a size 1 needle I was able to make [...]

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First I’ll begin with the host situation, since it most directly involves the blog. The blog will in fact be moving to a new domain name. I bought the domain name www.daniellelandes.com this past weekend, and it’ll be set up over the next few days. I will announce the blog’s address once it’s ready, which [...]

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This week started out really badly, and thankfully has gotten better. I woke up Monday to find that Yahoo’s email server crashed, along with it, over half of all of my emails (in and out boxes + folders); gone. (On this front, Thursday all of the people on my contacts list were moved into my [...]

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