The Non-Transferability of Human Experience

True or false?

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Warm Ewe Up Swap Question the First

I have joined a yarn swap on Ravelry called, punnily, “Warm Ewe Up.”
One of the rules is that we have to have a blog and post on it at least twice a month. To get us started, the moderator is posing group questions to be answered on our blogs.
And, here is the first one: [...]

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Merry Christmas!!

To celebrate, here is a photo of a knitted
nativity scene that someone made from a
Jean Greenhowe pattern.

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Warm Ewe Up Swappee!

That’s the term, right? I’m the spoiler and she’s the swappee?
Anyway, I can’t wait to start the spoiling — from reading her profile and associated online publications, Ms.XYZ sounds so nice. In addition, we have a lot in common. I dare not say what we have in common, lest she read this [...]

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Quiet Afternoon

The tree is half-trimmed, my favorite cat is sleeping on the printer, I’ve sent the case I was writing to my boss, my dad is taking me out to supper (so no cooking tonight), the weather is raw and rainy, my daughter is home from out west and so far we’re actually having FUN together, [...]

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Unfinished Gift Solution – Photos!

Ta da, the promised photos!
First, the scarf.
The pattern is on Ravelry – it’s The Corrugator
My Corrugator, intended as a Christmas present for my father,
is languishing in the beginning stage

So, as a placeholder for here is the wee little version of the scarf:

Finally, here is the presentation.
I plan to add the little scarf to a greeting [...]

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Solution for Unfinished Holiday Gifts

Bit off more than you can chew,
er, I mean knit, this December?
Me too.
Here’s one solution:
I started a lovely blue scarf for my father,
but it probably won’t be finished in time.
So, I knit a tiny, miniature scarf in the same
yarn and same pattern.
Next, I’ll make a greeting card -
maybe a paper doll of my [...]

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Slightly Tipsy

Boy, am I a cheap date. Two glasses of wine and . . . well, two glasses was plenty.
More later . ..

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Annual Meltdown – Watch for It

I have observed that during the last three weeks of December
the psyche of – well, everyone – kind of runs off the tracks.
Is it Holiday Stress?
Economic Anxiety?
Ancient Childhood Traumas haunting us?
Too much awful Mall Music?
Sugar Overdose?
Visiting Relatives?
Or maybe that old standby, All of the Above.
Regardless, I hereby predict that many of your friends [...]

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Rainbow Lace Bookmark

Trying out the new camera on some FO’s,
starting with this bookmark.

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