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This pattern is available for $6.50 USD buy it now Gotta love those mini-skeins! Groove features five 25-gram mini skeins from Oink Pigments, Knit One, Crochet Too, SweetGeorgia, Lorna’s Laces & Anzula. Grab those mini skeins and get knitting this sweet sideways shawl. Written Instructions are Included for Charts Yarn Used for Shawl Shown: Targhee Pigtail from Oink Pigments, 90% Superwash Targhee/10% Nylon, 100 yards/25 grams, in the color Golden Fleece (Color 1) Mini Crock-O-Dye from Knit One, Crochet Too, 65% Superwash Wool/20% Nylon/15% Silk, 104 yards/25 grams, in the color #855 Buckhorn (Color 2) Tough Love Sock from SweetGeorgia...

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This pattern is available for $6.50 USD buy it now This fun shawl is the result of a collaboration between 5 yarn companies (and me), who all dyed a special mini skein to be joined in one shawl! A collaborative project for the TNNA 2018 Winter show in Vegas, we wanted to tie the theme into some of the other things this city has to offer: bright lights, deep desert night skies (if one leaves the lights behind) and many incredible shows!   This top down shawl is an updated take on the classic triangle shawl, with added width for...

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This pattern is available for $6.00 USD buy it now   Pudding stone is a unique and beautiful rock conglomerate found throughout Michigan and parts of Ontario, Canada. It is a sandy colored stone heavily studded with brightly contrasting pebbles of red jasper, white quartzite, semi-transparent quartz, and black chert. The stones originated in a quarry in Ontario, and they were deposited across Michigan tens of thousands of years ago by the glaciers that advanced and retreated over the land during the Pleistocene epoch. Our Pudding Stone is a triangular shawl with a surprisingly simple (if slightly funky) construction and...

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This pattern is available for $6.00 USD buy it now   The shape of this shawlette inhabited my thoughts for a long time before it finally came to life. I’ve named it for Maria Agnesi, an Italian mathematician best known for her contributions to differential and integral calculus. Agnesi was a professor at the University of Bologna. She gives her name to a concept known as the “Witch of Agnesi,” which refers to a curve that can be expressed in an algebraic equation. I think the curves of this shawlette are evocative of that so-called ‘Witch.’ Finished Size: Appx 36“...

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