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a gift for mom?

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I sent my mom pictures of me in the x-back and her reaction was so enthusiastic that I think I’ll make the current project for her instead of me, which solves the problem of owning identical homemade items myself and also helps with the whole gift giving awkwardness. I mean, c’mon, it’s my mom, she’ll love whatever I make her!

Unfortunately, my mom is smaller than me, so I’ll have to drop the size a bit, which means frogging the ball and a quarter I’ve already knit. But that’ll just add another–what–two hours to the total time spent on this version? I can handle that.

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ball winder!

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I used the joann.com promotion code (50% off a single item until June 1) to buy myself one of those mechanical ball winders. In the past, I’ve just gone over to Sophie’s Yarns and asked to use theirs, but I no longer live two blocks away.

I’m very excited about this, because for $30 I just got something that will save me so much time. Obviously, it’s not difficult to wind the yarn myself, but it’s such a chore to do. At knitting group last fall a friend was so excited to start knitting her first item, but the group of us told her she had to start by winding the hank into a ball. What a downer that was for her!

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ah knitting

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I’ve been knitting since I was 8 years old, and track most of my projects in an old blank lab notebook. But it might be nice to start to take real project notes in one condensed spot, for all to see. It’s a thought, at least.