Category Archives: Knitting

All da kine about my knitting projects

I Am A Blessed Wahine

I am a blessed wahine. When I got together with my friend Nancy today for our knitting time, she ‘way surprised me by telling me that she was knitting a pair of socks for me. For me. I could hardly … Continue reading

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365 Days – Catch-Up Yet Again

K’den. Hope dis da lass time I gotta do dis!! Get on da kini popo, Moki! 17 July: Spinning for Tour de Fleece. Actually, I think I should call it Tour da Fleece. LOL.

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April 19 – A froggy tale

One photo couldn’t do justice to my day today. So you folks get to choose which one you think is the saddest, worthy of the photo of the day. About a month ago I finished a really pretty cowl. I … Continue reading

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April 13 – Chemo hats

I knit this chemo hat and another one in the same pattern for two women whom I don’t know. They’re both going through chemo right now, and I wanted to knit a hat for each of them. The pattern is … Continue reading

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Ravelympics Ravellenic Games

I got so busy during the Tour de Fleece that I forgot to post photos for that. I will, I will. And now it’s time for the Ravelry Ravellenic Games, which used to be called the Ravelympics, but we can’t … Continue reading

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Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival!!!

Whoo hoo! Tomorrow is OFFF! Fiber! Yarn! Llamas! Sheep! Color! Friends! Fiber! Maybe even a camel! I stay going! Been waiting all year for it! I love the environment, our small county fairgrounds filled with so much eye candy I … Continue reading

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I Did It!

The Knitting Olympics/Ravelympics are pau. Before I started, I had set a very challenging goal for myself, namely to enter the “WIP Dancing” (Work-in-Progress) event, and finish up two blankets that had been languishing for years, as well as a … Continue reading

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Ravelympics/Knitting Olympics

Just so you folks know… besides updating da blog, I’m also trying to complete some knitting stuff for the Ravelympics, which coincides, strangely enough, with the Winter Olympics. The goal of the Ravelympics (from Ravelry, a knitting community) and The … Continue reading

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Da Alohaghan: Five Years Later

Just last week, our friend passed her five-year, cancer-free anniversary, so I’m reposting this story in celebration. Mahalo ke Akua!

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Funny Story of Da Day

One time Nolemana was having surgery in a large Portland hospital, so I took my spinning wheel (it was going to be a fairly long surgery) and was spinning some dyed purple wool in the open, not crowded, waiting room. … Continue reading

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