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twelve
I recently knit 12 cupcakes for a friend’s daughter’s birthday party. These were semi-commissioned as the project played out more like this:
me (seeing photo of cupcakes): Squee! rushes sends email off to M & B offering to help out
M & B (via email): would you like to make one?
me: please? tell me the yarn
B: I’ll send it to you.
me: wow! thanks. I’ll knit as many as I can.
Well, as many as I can turned into 12. I wanted to knit double that but it took me a while to get a production line going and the rowan glace on 2mm’s caused me to allow other (wool) distractions. I enjoyed knitting this because it was a challenge not to deviate (a lot) from the pattern and to try to make them all look similar. Would I get bored? Despite some grumbling to the contrary I loved making all of them. I didn’t want them to look machine made, but not homemade other. I hope …
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"twelve" (Wed 01 Jul 2009)
I recently knit 12 cupcakes for a friend’s daughter’s birthday party. These were semi-commissioned as the project played out more like this:
me (seeing photo of cupcakes): Squee! rushes sends email off to M & B offering to help out
M & B (via email): would you like to make one?
me: please? tell me the yarn
B: I’ll [...]
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