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		<title>My Wensleydale yarn, and reading aloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just over a month ago I was spinning a beautiful braid of Wensleydale fibre from The Thylacine&#8217;s November fibre club, and I&#8217;m happy to say that I&#8217;ve finished. Being a longwool (and a Google image search will make the meaning of that term abundantly plain) it has a lovely sheen and a good deal of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twoswallows.com/blog/2009/12/17/my-wensleydale-yarn-an-reading-aloud/</link>
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		<title>Finished: Kelmscott</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been months since I last showed you a finished knit (my change-ringing scarf was the last, back in February!), so it&#8217;s high time for a new one. I have, in fact, been knitting during these quiet months, but my knitting luck&#8217;s been quite out and I&#8217;ve ended up unravelling most of what I&#8217;ve made. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twoswallows.com/blog/2009/12/09/finished-kelmscott/</link>
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		<title>More spinning</title>
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It&#8217;s official: I love spinning. The great thing about using a spindle is that it&#8217;s so portable; it takes up hardly any space so it&#8217;s okay to stop right in the middle of something, shove it in a bag, and forget about it for a while. If I had a wheel&#8230; but let&#8217;s not go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twoswallows.com/blog/2009/11/12/more-spinning/</link>
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		<title>I ♥ McQueen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oops! My RSS feed was broken, and I don&#8217;t know for how long. It&#8217;s fixed now.
Other than that, if you have a few minutes to spare today I&#8217;d highly recommend watching the video of Alexander McQueen&#8217;s Spring 2010 Ready To Wear collection, entitled &#8220;Plato&#8217;s Atlantis&#8221; (and I love that this is meant to be &#8220;ready [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twoswallows.com/blog/2009/10/07/i-love-mcqueen/</link>
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		<title>Hello Autumn ♥</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer is not my most productive time of year. I don&#8217;t know why this is, but ever since the weather&#8217;s been getting cooler I&#8217;ve been just itching to do and make. I won&#8217;t over-analyse it, but I&#8217;m glad that I&#8217;m feeling more enthusiastic.
Witness the results (both are works in progress, but both are well on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twoswallows.com/blog/2009/09/21/hello-autumn/</link>
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		<title>Return of the Knitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The problem with having (seemingly) twenty million projects on the go is that one has nothing to write about, and then it&#8217;s three months later and one feels slightly stupid when one notices the last date of one&#8217;s post on one&#8217;s blog. Ahem.
I have pattern writing that I&#8217;ve been putting off by the simple expedient [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twoswallows.com/blog/2009/07/23/return-of-the-knitter/</link>
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		<title>Still here</title>
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The above image is of a rather wet cotton jumper, knitted from a 1940s pattern contained in the excellent book, A Stitch In Time, Vol 1. I offer it up as proof of my continued existence, as things have been rather quiet around here lately. I hope to get back up to speed soon!
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		<link>http://twoswallows.com/blog/2009/04/29/still-here/</link>
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		<title>Step by step, book by book</title>
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I&#8217;m going through the initial stages of designing something. As is evidenced by the photos above, this involves trying out stitch patterns, reading up on good design practice, and a fair bit of maths. The process is slightly hampered by the fact that I&#8217;m resting a sore arm and am therefore not doing any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twoswallows.com/blog/2009/02/27/step-by-step-book-by-book/</link>
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		<title>Choices, a Scarf and Designing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks very much to everyone who commented on my previous post! Those three projects are high in my list of favourites &#8211; they&#8217;re very wearable and go with almost all my other clothes.
On that note, I have to confess to not wearing some of my older projects as much as I thought I would. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twoswallows.com/blog/2009/02/19/choices-a-scarf-and-designing/</link>
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		<title>Stuff I knitted and forgot to blog about</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What the title says. :)

Tangled Yoke cardigan
I wear this all the time. It&#8217;s hard-wearing and very warm &#8211; the yarn is not perfectly soft and slightly tickles bare arms, but it doesn&#8217;t make me uncomfortable. The pattern was simple with just a few fiddly moments at the yoke. If I made it again I&#8217;d change [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twoswallows.com/blog/2009/02/04/stuff-i-knitted-and-forgot-to-blog-about/</link>
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