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click, click, click…slide…clack, clack, clack…slide…

That would be the sound of my knitting needles flying along creating item after item.
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Some items are commission work…fun, happy designs for friends, usually a gift for a kid.
Some items are Christmas gifts…yes, I still have more to finish. Last count I had a total of 52 to be ready for Christmas. I think I am only about 1/3 of the way through.

Some items are test knits, also fun & challenging in their own right.

Some items are my designs to either sell as a pattern or sell the finished item.
That means I need somewhere to sell the items & custom orders I am getting before the holidays…

Hello Etsy!!

I have a bit of stock built up but I don’t want to open until I have dozens of items & a lot of variety to list. That means patience on my end of things. My store is technically open on Etsy with just one custom order listing for a friend that’s actually paid for, finished & shipped.

Soon I am hoping to have my stock finished, photos taken, business cards arrived, shipping labels ready, etc to open my Etsy shop…Firebrunette Knits & Wears (yes, wears instead of wares since I knit & wear items as well as sell the items all you cool peeps will be wearing, hinthint).

Any special requests or ideas on what I should sell in the shop just drop me a line or comment!
Thanks!!

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Alright, so here I am!

Okay, all of my archives are moved over & I think I am ready to tackle a post.

The new Knitty is out today. Very lovely items but none as fantastic as the Laminaria shawl. Oh how it speaks to me! The green Estonian lace in a winged shape. Ah, how it makes me sigh. I guess I am feeling the need to move on to lighter knits now that we are in the full swing of spring here in SB.

I haven’t worked on much of anything in the past week. On Saturday I decided that it was time to pull out the Picnic Blanket & get it moving along again.

 

I have one more round of squares to crochet, that’s 34 squares more to make. I can do about 14 in a long day. Probably 6 in a regular evening. If I really push myself I could have it done to go on our picnic on Sunday. Of course, it needs a bag to be carried in so I will have to sew one up real quick like.

The single crocheting of all the squares together is another matter altogether. Yesterday all I was able to do is get two rows sewn vertically together. Today, one so far. The second isn’t far from being done and then I can move on to the horizontal seaming. See all those ends? For the most part they are all crocheted into the actual squares so I just need to go through and cut them all off. It would look much neater, don’t you think?

I ripped out the Transition Gloves as well as a pair of socks that just weren’t to my liking. I did a few rounds on the Venezia a few days ago. I am hoping that the Picnic Blanket will be my shining beauty to show I actually have done something useful!