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    Granny Square Blanket – Complete

    It’s finished! It’s finally finished! It took two full months and more brain power than I anticipated to complete (being a new-to-me stitch and all) but it’s all done and I’m pretty happy with my first ever Granny Square blanket! A photo posted by Melissa (@evergrowingfarm) on Aug 28, 2016…

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    Granny Square Blanket…Almost There

    With almost six weeks invested, in tiny increments of actual Crochet Time (mostly in the truck on the commute to and from work), and 54 granny squares created, my first Granny Square Blanket (er…throw) simply needs to be stitched together! It’s almost silly how excited I am about this simple…

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    Reading and Making

    I am currently re-reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, a book drenched in history with deep, rich, story-telling…and Vampires. I have been searching for a book to read for what feels like forever, and have started several that I just couldn’t quite get into. They all required too much thinking…

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    A new hat for Sprout

    With the weather warming and this toddler of our growing like a weed, a new hat was necessary to get us through the next couple of months. Simple as it is, I am very happy with how it turned out…and I think she is, too 🙂 After working on my…

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    Sky Blanket – Completion

    You guys, after all of the tracking and counting and working on this blanket for over a year in order to document 365 days of our gorgeous Northern New Mexico skies, I truly couldn’t be happier with the result! Not only is this simple blanket beautiful and so very warm,…

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    Sky Blanket update

    I’ve decided that I need to stop setting myself up for failure by taking on huge projects with multiple steps that take forever to complete and leave me feeling frustrated and unaccomplished. As I mentioned in my previous post, frustrated and unaccomplished don’t jive well with my personality type at…

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    There’s Something in the Water

    I think there must’ve been something in the water last winter because there are a lot of babies being born these days!  In addition to our own Little One joining us in October, two of our close friends and many of our acquaintances have either recently given birth or are…