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Oh burn me with your beauty

How cold it is! Even the lights are cold: They have put shawls of fog around them, see!

يصعب على الفلسطيني أن يصدق أنه محظوظ

There was a new frail yellow moon tonight I wish you could have had it for a cup with stars like dew to fill it to the brim

Life will have given me the truth and taken in exchange my youth

only by love is life made real

I taught the world thy music, now alone I sing for one who falls asleep to hear

Yet in the city of my love, High noon burns all the heavens bare, for him the happiness of light for me a delicate despair

I did not know the longing in the night you who have waked me cannot give me sleep

as a dreaming river that nears at last its long predestined sea...I did not know that to my life's high altar came its priest

All beauty calls you to me...you are as the wind I breathe

Done

Maintain an open mind then and perhaps develop for yourself an new way of life and....

* The PI Shawl

*After Thought Pocket

*The Heart Hat

*I cord buttonhole

*The Rib Warmer

tomten jacket- knit 1/8 of x then cast off 1/4 of x then knit 1/4 of x then cast off 1/4 of x then knit final 1/8 of x

The Tomten Jacket- the prototype is done on 112 sts (should be divisible by 8) can fit from baby to slender adult

Mysterious I cord belt-cast on 7 sts- *K4, wool forward slip 3purwise. Repeat from *

The Pelerine- started at the neck with 63 sts and worked downwards with 3 double increases every second row: one at the center back, and the other tow 1/6 of the sts in from either end

when weaving of garter stitch the rows must be in the right relationship to one another

*square baby blanket- knit half of the stitches

in garter stitch- corners may be knitted at an exact 90 degree angle a thing which cannot be achieved in any knitted fabric based on stocking stitch

Ten ridges of garter stitch measure exactly the same as ten stitches

No Purling No Curling

when two pieces of fabric meet Head-On to be woven, they will always be half a stitch off

the best way to cast off shoulders is in purl (on the right side) which will form a braid. shoulders tend to stretch undesirably and this casting off keep them in order

the sleeve width dictates the depth of the armhole