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Norah’s Knits: Knitting Stars

I hear a lot of talk about knitting stars (celebrities), but it's geometric stars that I'm talking about today. A few years ago, when I just couldn't stop knitting hexagons and pentagons, I expanded my explorations to include 3-D shapes. Celestine is made of 10 pentagons all knit on to each other forming a dodecahedron.… Continue reading Norah’s Knits: Knitting Stars

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Norah’s Knits: Knitted Christmas Ornaments

Some of my fondest childhood memories are of making Christmas decorations with my mom and my brother. Glue, glitter, felt, paint and suttache cord somehow came together to make truly charming ornaments for our tree. A few (ok, four) decades later, Mom still uses the best of these gems. These days, my craft of choice is… Continue reading Norah’s Knits: Knitted Christmas Ornaments