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Jan 2024: What’s the plan, Pam?
There was method in my madness when I chose to move into my personal-sized Filofax at the end of November 2023 instead of waiting like a good girl for the beginning of 2024. It gave me a whole month to use my chosen option of page-a-day diary and establish how that was going to work… Continue reading
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Star Spangled
I’ve made a good start on the knitting project for my friend – a chunky cardigan with a USA theme which I’ve decided I will call “Star Spangled”. I’ve got a picture in my mind of how I want the final design to look, though I’m rather winging the actual construction, trying out elements with… Continue reading
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And a Waterman under the tree
That Christmas gift to myself and the story of how I came to justify it Let me take you back, if I may, to the balmy days of summer. August 9th, to be precise. A day like any other, but for the fact that a fellow blogger, Rupert over at “Fountain Pen Blog”, published a… Continue reading
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The calm before Christmas
Hurrah! I’m settling into the calm, quiet lead-up to Christmas. Work is done, if not for year, then definitely for the long holiday weekend. Gifts have been exchanged, the door is locked, I’m on the inside and the world is on the outside. Nothing much matters for the next three days. I’ve just enjoyed a… Continue reading
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It isn’t 2024 but…
Okay, so I couldn’t wait for the end of the year and moved into my Filofax early. For December I’m just using lined notepaper for my daily sheets with a simple hand-written the date at the top of each page. So far, the daily pages are working well. They provide plenty of room to write… Continue reading
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I said there was progress
There comes a point in every knitting project – at least, in all those where you are knitting a garment – when you get your first glimpse of how the finished object is going to look when you wear it. A moment when it moves from the abstract to the concrete, from theory to reality.… Continue reading
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