Knitting With Eleanor

Tag: Knitting Without Needles

  • The good and the bad..

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    The good thing about having boys… They often come with race car bedding which when paired with an ironing board makes an excellent blocking board. The bad thing about having boys… they like to play with things… Another block down for the Diva Knitting Challenge. Despite the pin rearrangement I think this one is closer…

  • #1

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    Wow! I just googled knitting without needles, just for fun! And guess what? My blog came up as the first listing!! Isn’t that supposed to mean something?? Have I made it? Ok.. back to the normal blog chatter..

  • The thing is..

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    I am trying a new thing on my knitting board. I am hoping, I say,hoping to get this done and submitted by October 20th to a knitting magazine. The thing is with knitting boards it’s hard to tell how your peice is turning out. The pegs and the base all serve to block your progress…

  • ‘more important than Dante and Giotto were, well… the sheep.’

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    And now for a little history! The title is aquote from our history lesson. Azia and I said “yeah sheep! Aparently in the rennaisance Florence Italy was full of sheep! The wool industry was huge! And the Medici family was, well, the first mafia family.They pretty much ran everything in the background. But to keep…