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Finished up this comfy pair of toe-up socks this morning. These socks have been hanging fire for two weeks, only needing a couple of hours to finish. I put them aside (in fact, I put ALL of my knitting aside) when my best friend put the arm-twist on me to design a website for a political action committee she belongs to – but that’s another story. As I said in my previous post, I put a new </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/3BagsFulled/~3/4_7HXftdajY/toe-up-socks-hot-off-needles.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jean)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-CTrvRPH3mNk/Thp3IQkE7GI/AAAAAAAAAUM/e2dfDiLJEMo/s72-c/from%252520iphone%252520016_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CPJzS4r2_O2inPS0KLHmlfRJeag/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CPJzS4r2_O2inPS0KLHmlfRJeag/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3BagsFulled/~4/ESWZPuom9K0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://3bagsfulled.blogspot.com/2008/12/freeform-crochet-and-beyond-bags.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790945747129208278.post-7996855908185953645</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-04T17:41:02.716-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Must Have Books</category><title>AntiCraft: Knitting, Beading and Stitching for the Slightly Sinister</title><atom:summary>AntiCraft: Knitting, Beading and Stitching for the Slightly SinisterThis book by Renee Rigdon and Zabet Stewart is one of the newest and wildest additions to my growing library of knitting and crochet books. I just had to post a word or two about this wickedly different how-to/pattern book of "slightly sinister" projects that will appeal to the teens and young adults who are into the dark, </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/3BagsFulled/~3/aUM8j5eUs_s/anticraft-knitting-beading-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jean)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EC1caKvfg2U/STbYbkeL-BI/AAAAAAAAAKM/tCvjPdmk0GE/s72-c/Anticraft.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sTX9H2eKFub7S1z8PCizux8_P-8/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sTX9H2eKFub7S1z8PCizux8_P-8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3BagsFulled/~4/D1hNVLTWCL0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://3bagsfulled.blogspot.com/2008/09/updated-website-for-irrational.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790945747129208278.post-534461277886559014</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-16T12:02:09.701-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fiber Art Seascape</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Machine Needle Felting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Machine Embellisher</category><title>Fiber Art Seascape "Heading In" Needlefelt on Fabric</title><atom:summary>"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." From Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.I had the rare opportunity to spend a day sailing with friends. The weather was perfect - sun and 75 degrees, with just enough wind to fill the sails and keep us moving along at a leisurely 5 knot pace. We had no destinations and no time schedules to </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/3BagsFulled/~3/aZ1lpGGvVqE/fiber-art-seascape-heading-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jean)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EC1caKvfg2U/SM_xeLS-WcI/AAAAAAAAAFs/F8cfW64MsIU/s72-c/odds+n+ends+003.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kCJmYPQeqkS8bwldQT-oIZ1qyv0/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kCJmYPQeqkS8bwldQT-oIZ1qyv0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3BagsFulled/~4/RdwtERkapCE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://3bagsfulled.blogspot.com/2007/09/tagged-im-it.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790945747129208278.post-8566098033950164820</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-12T19:34:27.377-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Finished Projects</category><title>Convertible Sweater - Thinking Outside the Box</title><atom:summary>My friend, Laurie, over at Camanomade, recently wrote: "I can blog or I can spin..." &amp; it rang a bell with me. Like most of us artsy-crafty folks with blogs, we are constantly torn between the compulsion to "share" our latest bit of cleverness with the world &amp; our reluctance to put our latest project aside for an hour at the keyboard. An hour?? Yes, unfortunately, knitting words into articles </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/3BagsFulled/~3/Z_xXpdMVZUY/convertible-sweater-thinking-outside.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jean)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EC1caKvfg2U/RvNRhzprEmI/AAAAAAAAAEY/Lm4B3ozeHTk/s72-c/fall+017.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EMokg2k4QHN9cqlFxL4uqMyf2DQ/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EMokg2k4QHN9cqlFxL4uqMyf2DQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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