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One Month to Go!

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It's December 1, and in November I used up: 9.4 skeins of yarn 1,594.8 yards of yarn absolutely no fabric whatsoever (gotta work on that part) It felt like a lot more yarn than that, but the obsession with the Alice Starmore sweater in fingering yarn might have something to do with that.  I may never be this close to 20,000 yards in a year again, so with even more than my usual maniacal yarny fever, I need to knit just under 2,000 yards of yarn this month.  Amid all the Christmas parties and other festivities.  Hm......... Meet the new (hopefully) yarn-eating project: which is a free pattern from Lion Brand yarns.  I'm using size 7 needles to get gauge, and the skeins are only 110 yards each, so I'm hoping this will be super motivating.  And anyone thinking this yarn looks slightly familiar, it's part of the "oh-my-gosh-what-if-I-use-up-my-entire-stash" purchase made in 2007   before starting my first year of Cold-Sheeping.  I just lo...