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This shawl started out as the Eliina, I went too far in the body trying to use all of the yarn and decided to abandon the pattern all together. I just finished off with a garter ruffled edge. I haven’t measured it but it is bigger than I expected!

Haha, that song makes me laugh.

But seriously, let’s talk body.

I have gained weight. Muscles. Still scared shitless of fat. Dealing with the inevitable fact that the fat will appear eventually.

I am going to the gym daily. Rotating workouts. Worked legs yesterday and I am sore today! It’s about frickin’ time! I used  my max weights  from the start and just went. It worked. I can walk, unfortunately. I was hoping I would be so sore I couldn’t move but I guess moving is a good thing when you have to do stuff.

I have been incorporating a dynamic exercise into each workout; burpees, prisoner squats with knee lifts, lunge kick thingies that I am not bothering to go look up the technical name for. Gets a sweat up, not what I am supposed to be doing if my goal is to put on the muscle weight. I am not taking in enough calories to do cardio and burn calories, I am burning muscle when I do cardio so I need to be careful.

Still hate food. Nothing new there.

So, there you go. Little bits of progress.

I am finished! Bound off first thing this morning and now it’s blocking.
I had 80 yards less than the pattern called for but it ended up the perfect size for all day wear at work.

I love my parents, let me preface with that. They are very clean, organized people.
So to find a container of Bac-Os in the back of the cupboard with an expiration date from 15+ years ago is kind of astounding.
Tiny bit scared right now, what else will I find?!?!

I have received so much yarn over the last few months that it’s time to knit it up!
I started a crochet hat using the yarn from my sister in law Roberta. Don’t like it at all. Now I have decided it needs to be socks.
So I pulled out all yarn and centered on the madelinetosh pashmina in warm maize that Rowan, beautiful Rowan, gave me months ago. Then for a pattern. Ravelry helped me out there. Multnomah Shawl. Simple, useful, and cuuute!

Done & done. Useful, warm & just a tad kick ass.

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 22,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 5 fully loaded ships.

In 2010, there were 161 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 1,650 posts. There were 256 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 147mb. That’s about 5 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was September 22nd with 414 views. The most popular post that day was Single Crochet Beanie Pattern.

Where did they come from?

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Some visitors came searching, mostly for crochet beanie pattern, single crochet beanie pattern, single crochet beanie, simple crochet beanie pattern, and daybreak shawl.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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