Sarah Jane Humke

The life of a traveling, reading, writing, spining and knitting shepherdess.

So, I haven’t shown y’all a lot of what I’ve been doing of late and I think that it’s about time that I rectified that.   First off, I finished the cabled embrace scarf.  It turned out nicely but I was just sooooo glad for it to be done already!  It wasn’t difficult once you …

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The other night I was asked by someone at the Click and Clack knitting group that I was at what I missed about the US.  The first thing that popped out of my mouth was, “parking lots”.  Yes, parking lots.  I know that that sounds kinda trite but it isn’t like I don’t miss my …

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  When did I become a perfectionist?  I mean really, when?!  Last I remember I was changing colors in an afghan by (gasp!) knotting yarns together and the next thing you know I’m ripping out 90 or so rows of sock yarn which had been knit on size 2.5mm needles (for my crochet buddies, this …

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Saturday the hubby and I went to Coventry for the UK Ravelry Day.  On the way there, we stopped in Leighton Buzzard and picked-up a lady whom I had met on a UK Ravelry Day forum offering and looking for rides.  Her name is Tini and we honestly could not have had a better car …

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I hinted yesterday that I would have a post of all of the goodies that I got while in Edinburgh today so here it is!  I primarily got yarns at 2 shops, K1 Yarns and the department store John Lewis.  The reason for the John Lewis expenditure is two-fold.  First, they had some Noro Kureyon, …

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I realize that I haven’t been very good of late of showing or telling what I’ve been up to since I got back from the US.  So, I am going to have a monster blog entry to try to show you all the fun and exciting things that have been going on since my return. …

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It has finally turned grey here in the Southern end of England and sort of cold.  In fact, if I didn’t have a calender on the wall I would think that spring is now going backwards except for a few things.  One is that the peonies are getting ready to bloom.  I love peonies.  My grandmother …

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So, I teased you several posts ago about the super secret thing that I am working on.  Well, here it is: Yep.  I learned how to knit.  (Gasp!  Shock!  Oh the humanity!!!)  I heard a good review of a book that taught how to knit continental style.  I’ve always thought that continental style made more …

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So, I have been a very bad blogger!  Are you gonna spank me now?  Huh?  Didn’t think so.  I know that I’ve been bad but I actually have a pretty decent reason for it.  I was in the US for the past week+ and I didn’t have a whole lot of internet connection nor time to connect. …

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I am fully caffeinated for the first time in about 2 months.  Yesterday, I went out and filled big blue (my trusty 52 ounce insulated mug) up with flourecent yellow Mountain Dew goodness and ice and drank deeply.  It was oh so good.  I think that I finally understand serious drug addiction.  So, I was slurping …

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