ILONA ANDREWS

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My Name Is Ilona…

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Hello, remember me? After the marathon of 60-hour weeks, Ruby Fever has been rewritten. I do not remember when was the last time we worked so hard. Mod R read a little bit of it and she sent me an emoticon of a kitty with hearts in the eyes, so it must not totally suck.
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Crafting Projects

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What are you working on? You haven’t posted anything in a while.” Oh boy. So you remember the Problama? The law of Chateau Andrews state that if one child has gotten something as a parental gift, the other child shall receive an equivalent of the same type. So if one gets a handmade sweater, the
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No Probllama

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Do you have a probllama? This is my probllama. I haven’t crosstitched in about 20 years, but I saw an article about different reddit boards, and there was a crosstitch reddit. And on it, someone had taken this kit and changed it from No Probllama to 2020 Probllama. I thought it was the funniest thing.
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All the Colors

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By popular request, here is one of the yarn things I bought. I still need to call and order stuff from the West Coast. I bought this set from Expression Fiber Arts. It’s called Romantic Morning Hues, 50% Merino Wool, 50% Mulberry Silk, “pearlescent fingering,” the total of 2200 yards. Now I have no idea
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I Don’t Need More Yarn

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We all have different coping mechanisms. I have found that sometimes they fail and we don’t even realize it. The other day I picked up a knitting project that lay abandoned for several weeks and Gordon said, “I’m so glad you’re knitting again. That’s a thing you do, and you suddenly stopped.” The last time
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Birthday Yarn and a Crop Top

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In December Gordon ordered me some yarn for my birthday from Always and Forever. It didn’t arrive in time for my birthday. It didn’t arrive a couple of weeks later. I was slightly bummed out, and Gordon emailed the shop on January 14 only to find out that my yarn and everybody’s yarn was stuck
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Craft Room Adventures

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Over the last decade, my yarn stash has grown to gargantuan proportions. I could run a store out of my craft room, except that my craft room is a horrible mess. Was a horrible mess. It was kind of sad because being in my craft room normally makes me happy. But over the past year
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An Easy Garter Shawlette

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I have finished knitting something. I know, shocking. Sorry to stun you like this early in the morning. 🙂 Awhile ago I was going through the craft room and found a little metal tin with tiny balls of yarn in it, mohair with a touch of lurex. The best I can figure out it must’ve
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Knitting Dilemmas

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First, admin stuff. A small note on comment moderation on fiction posts: all the comments are read, so if the comment has been left up, that means we are cool with it. I keep starting and dropping various creative projects. I was going to paint in photoshop, so I made a planet to put in
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I made a Russian Hat

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So this is a hat based on a pattern available at Modnoyevyazanie.ru, pattern Kosa S Tenyu, or Braid with a Shadow. Here it is, being reluctantly modeled by its intended recipient. When you get a typical pattern off Ravelry, it usually comes in a multiple of sizes with a graph and a video and different
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