Sarah Jane Humke

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

After having a pretty rough week today I got the nicest surprise in the world.  It was a Christmas/Birthday package from my friend Barbro in Finland with all sorts of lovely goodies in it for me! There were these awesome wrist warmers (which I put to use as soon as I took the picture of …

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I finished knitting the Feza scarf and immediately decided to block it a bit so that it didn’t look quite so much like a red, green and orange rope around my neck. Here it is in it’s Soak bath. Here it is about halfway blocked. Here it is all pinned up.  I didn’t go totally …

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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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