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sheep of steel super speedy beret

it’s a bird! it’s a plane! it’s our super speedy sheep of steel beret!  we opened our box of sheep of steel twisted bobbles handspun yarns yesterday and got straight to work.  we knit the entire 36 row beret in about 2.5 hours — no doubt less time than it would take to walk to madison avenue, battle the crowds, and buy a beret (much needed these days, given that it’s FREEZING in NYC!).   irem, the british textile artist that spins each skein by hand,…

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blimunda

People thought that she must be mad, but if she lingered there for any time they found her so rational in everything else she said and did that they began to doubt their initial impression that she was unsound of mind.  She soon became known from one province to the next, so that her reputation often preceded her and they called her the Flying Woman on account of the strange tale she told . . . She did find him . . . Then Blimunda…

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