Softball

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I'm thinking of making one of these bracelets from I Can Find The Time for my sister in law.  She just finished the last season of her illustrious college softball career, and I think it might be a fun memento of this phase of her life.

Problem Solved: Too Small Shirt Sleeves

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Too-Small Shirt Sleeves

Do you have any shirts that aren't comfortable because of weirdly-small sleeve diameters?  Check out this tutorial from My Life on the Divide.  I have this exact same shirt with the exact same problem.  Problem solved.

I will be using this tutorial on my shirt for sure.  I'm trying to decide if this shirt is neon and, if it is, whether I should hurry up and do the alterations before EBEW Neon next Tuesday.

I think I would leave a little extra fabric and sew my seams rather than using Stitch Witchery.

Knit Wit

I learned to crochet in January 2011.  My friend Nancy gave me a couple hooks and a few skeins of yarn when I left my job in Iowa to prepare for our move to Georgia.  Crochet has been a lifeline for me many times over the past year.  It busied my hands in the stressfully unemployed weeks before we made the big move, in the car ride to Georgia and during many anxious moments in the months after.

I have crocheted dozens of projects, the vast majority of which I have given away to friends and family.  I am quite fluent in the language of crochet. I know sc, dc, tc, ch, hdc and the rest.  I crochet in the car (when riding as a passenger), on my lunch break, in airports, on airplanes, while watching tv and any other time my full attention is not needed for the task at hand.  When it comes to crochet, I've got it.

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NaturallyCaron.com

Knitting, in my mind, is a different animal.  My sister tried to teach me to knit a few Christmases back, and I recently found (and frogged) my first pitiful attempt.  Knitting seems like magic to me.  You wiggle your fingers and needles around and *poof* something knitted.

My mother-in-law knits absolutely gorgeous garments and accessories of all kinds.  She has knitted a few cherished items for me, but I don't want to wear out her goodwill by constantly asking for her to put her needles to my use.

On that note, I am going to give knitting anther try.  I recently saw the Kansas City Cowl in the Caron Yarns newsletter, and I want it to be mine.

It will mean learning a new language of stitches and abbreviations and buying new tools and toys, but I think I can do it.  I'll start with practicing a the knitting, purling, and frogging, and before long I'm sure it will seem as natural as crocheting.