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17 Oct 2021

Deepa conducts a workshop

October 17, 2021
By Needlestosaymore
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Last Friday was a red-letter day for Deepa.. Long time readers of this blog will know that Deepa is my right hand. She makes up a large part of “The Patience and Perseverance” part of my brain—the fac...

29 Jul 2020

Knits

Knitting with Cotton

July 29, 2020
By Needlestosaymore
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Cotton, in our tropical country, is like air…it is difficult to imagine life without it. Inspite of a zillion synthetic materials, and many other natural fibres around us, most of us feel comfortable ...

20 Jul 2020

Knits

Double Magic…pure poetry

July 20, 2020
By Needlestosaymore
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Double Magic.... That’s the name of my shawl Woven by women who own sheep Have children Live in shelters Made from mossy rocks In tiny villages that dot The Himalayan snow Remote to everything But po...

22 Jun 2020

Knits

Cowl conversation

June 22, 2020
By Needlestosaymore
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I was reborn a knitter when I started knitting long mufflers in Orissa. My job was all about travelling through the green countryside, 6 to 10 hours on an average day. I quickly ran out of options to ...

14 Jun 2020

Journeys

Projects and more projects..

June 14, 2020
By Needlestosaymore
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Lockdown months opened doors to many new knitting-unrelated projects, and what an enjoyable experience it has been!! Apart from the daily-15-doggy-rotis project, and the daily cooking-and-cleaning pro...

26 Apr 2020

Knits

Perfect ripping=perfect sweater

April 26, 2020
By Needlestosaymore
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Knitting projects of mine tend to follow a predictable path. There is a grand beginning,full of magnificent ideas of how the end product will look—how fabulous and fantastic it will be, with complime...

09 Jun 2019

Knits

Finding a name

June 9, 2019
By Needlestosaymore
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Five years ago, when the knitters were learning lace knitting by reading charts, we test knitted, re knitted and finally, perfected this lace shawl. Christened “Lace Shadows”, we have knitted it in ev...

10 May 2019

Knits

Hand knits…why do we need them?

Picture the Delhi Metro...women's compartment...cold January evening...solitary knitter in one corner. After spending the entire day explaining to learned people that abstinence usually does not work...

02 Mar 2019

Miscellaneous

Day 2… How I started

March 2, 2019
By Needlestosaymore
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I opened last year's attempt at this challenge. I lasted three days, but this write-up about how I started was just right. Repeating that story does not do justice to anyone. Besides, there is so muc...

04 Feb 2019

Knits

February…for Banging out a Cardigan.

February 4, 2019
By Needlestosaymore
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The worldwide knitting community has bonds of yarn ( of course), patterns, yarn festivals, Ravelry, and finally--the knitalongs or KALs in knitting language. There are sewalongs and crochetalongs, but...

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