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	<title>Taking Time to Smell the Roses</title>
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	<description>Rediscovering simplicity and balance in life - The musings and travels of Jackie E-S</description>
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		<title>Duo-Zephyr My Beading Heart Scarf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I designed the My Beading Heart Scarf for 2 strands of laceweight yarn, which I originally sampled in Lorna&#8217;s Laces Helen&#8217;s Lace Purple Club. The idea of my design was to allow closely-toned multi-colored laceweight yarn to mix visually into less distracting, yet ever-interesting color patterns. The idea of the beads was to complement and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cajun Gold Concertina Lace Socks</title>
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Here are the pics of the Concertina Lace Socks in Lion Brand Sock-Ease that I promised to show you. (You can click these smaller pics to see a larger picture in a separate browser window.)



This is color #204 Lemon Drop. I chose the gold colorway for these Concertina Socks, as I was smitten with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing with Sock-Ease yarn</title>
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Over last weekend, I played with the Lion Brand Sock-Ease in my pattern Country Girl Socks. This is color #206 Sour Ball. This color &#8217;spoke&#8217; to me for making these socks because I really think of lush countryside and green as going together, lol.


Sock-Ease has nice long sections of the main color interspersed with short [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Easter basket of &#8230;</title>
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&#8230; yarn, of course! No dyed eggs for me this Easter. Just lots of great yarn that has been showing up to evaluate, make new designs, knit additional models for the June TNNA trade show, etc.


After being heads down the past couple of weeks getting out the new release of patterns, it is going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s getting to be a LONG way around &#8230;</title>
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The knitting of Lacie Blankie is progressing nicely. I am now a good way through the Wide Outer Border. Since I am working towards the edge of the blanket, the stitch count has been ever- increasing, so it&#8217;s getting to be a LONG way around.


Thank goodness for the availability of circular needles with long cables [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lacie Blankie, a pattern in the making</title>
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It&#8217;s been over 8 years since my Cotswold Lace Blanket (a.k.a. Lacie Blankie) was selected as one of the winners in Interweave&#8217;s Save the Sheep contest and went on tour around the country. For the many admirers of the blanket who have waited patiently for me to publish the pattern instructions for Lacie Blankie, your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackie-es.com/the-designing-day/lacie-blankie.php</link>
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		<title>A Colorful Relationship</title>
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Remember the &#8220;Up to my ears in knitting&#8221; post I made on this blog last month? That was where I was talking about my design project for Lorna’s Laces and Mountain Colors. Sorry to not be able to say too much about it at the time. Well, that design project launched and was exhibited at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pet the Bunnies</title>
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When I and other members of Association of Knitwear Designers (AKD) are asked to knit swatches for TNNA&#8217;s Great Wall of Yarn (GWOY), we can make anything from plain to fancy &#8212; whatever our design creativity leads us to in showing off the yarn well.



Over the past few days, I posted about the swatches/mini-projects I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jarbo Garn Tropik from Swedish Yarn Imports</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tropik by Jarbo Garn (distributed by Swedish Yarn Imports) is the last of the 4 yarns I was sent to swatch for TNNA&#8217;s Great Wall of Yarn. Here it is made up into a swatch of 2 multiples of the stitch pattern used in the Elegantly Simple Baby Blanket and Flowered-Crown Preemie Cap (from my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackie-es.com/the-designing-day/jarbo-garn-tropik.php</link>
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		<title>Classic Two Australian wool lace yarn from Kaalund Yarns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Out of the 4 yarns I was sent to swatch for TNNA&#8217;s Great Wall of Yarn, two are from Australia. I posted yesterday about the Australian kid mohair yarn yesterday. Here is the other one &#8212; Kaalund Yarns Classic Two 100% Australian wool in the color Wisteria. This is a relatively fine 2-ply yarn hand-dyed [...]]]></description>
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