http://icouldsewdothat.com Spend less, live more. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:19:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://icouldsewdothat.com/archives/758?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-yarn-season-yeah http://icouldsewdothat.com/archives/758#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:34:35 +0000 admin http://icouldsewdothat.com/?p=758 From Crafty Projects Now that racing season is over and the weather begins to cool it’s time to head indoors. As fall arrives I’ll begin to move inward again and focus more on my meditation, strength training and crafts. I know many people enjoy their knitting and crochet year-round, but for me, summer is for [...]

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]]> http://icouldsewdothat.com/archives/279/feed 1 http://icouldsewdothat.com/archives/155?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=knit-wit http://icouldsewdothat.com/archives/155#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:56:10 +0000 admin http://icouldsewdothat.com/?p=155 I really enjoy recycling clothes and its true that with a little assistance that I can make darn near anything out of an old T-shirt, but I’ve always been drawn to knitting and crochet. The trouble is that I don’t actually know anyone who does it and everyone who has tried it complained that they [...]

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