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		<title>Socks, Beads and Signs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whoosh! Winter is almost over and it&#8217;s August already! I remember my grandmother telling me when I was a little girl that time seems to pass faster when you&#8217;re older, and one day I&#8217;ll think 5 years only a very little time (as compared to then when 5 years was ages and was a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rain, Rain, Go Away!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know that Dunedin does not have the best reputation weather wise. This doesn&#8217;t actually bother me, people think it snows all the time and that it&#8217;s miserable here on a regular basis, I know better and I smile to myself thinking how wonderful it is to live in such a charming city that isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vintagepurls.co.nz/Blog/?p=108</link>
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		<title>Sock Clubbing Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The winter sock club is about to kick off again. I&#8217;m excited and a little nervous. I like sock clubs; I enjoy making up little packages to send out, I like designing new sock patterns but I&#8217;m always a little concerned about time management and coming up with new things. Some things get easier &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vintagepurls.co.nz/Blog/?p=104</link>
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		<title>2009: Almost Half Gone Already!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, it&#8217;s almost the end of April already, it&#8217;s been a hectic year to date, so much going on &#8211; all of it great fun.
January saw the debut of a Summer Sock Club, which meant three new exclusive club colours and three new patterns to design. In order (January &#8211; March), Blue Sky Baby, Theodora [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vintagepurls.co.nz/Blog/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Still Here and Loving It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes I&#8217;m a very sporadic blogger, I&#8217;m sorry. Unfortunately blogging gets pushed to the bottom of the list these days. The business is going well and I&#8217;m not really keeping up &#8211; not that I&#8217;m complaining, this is a good thing.
My scanner has also been dead (really dead, not a peep, not a single glowing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vintagepurls.co.nz/Blog/?p=55</link>
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		<title>Dear Diary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life has been hectic but in a good way. My sock club is up and running and participants got their first installment (called Toasty) this week:

And I&#8217;m busy working on the second and third installments.
 
I became an auntie! She was a wee bit early (6 weeks) but she&#8217;s done very well and was able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sock Clubbing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Camp was great! Lots of knitting time but my actual output was small &#8211; this twined knitting lark is tough going. And because I&#8217;m that kind of difficult person I decided to jump in the deep end by twining with two colours &#8211; four ends, twisting, concentration and very slow knitting ensued. My two colour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vintagepurls.co.nz/Blog/?p=53</link>
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		<title>Off to Camp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I&#8217;m off to &#8220;Knitting Camp&#8221; for some exploration of Twined Knitting. It&#8217;s forecast to rain all weekend here so it seems an ideal weekend to huddle inside playing with yarn. The company will be superb and I can be all knit-geeky without getting strange looks from non-fibre obsessed individuals.

 
I&#8217;ve dyed up some z-twist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vintagepurls.co.nz/Blog/?p=52</link>
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		<title>A Fibre-Filled Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I said I have been working on something behind the scenes and at last I can reveal what it is. Notice anything different about my site? New haircut? No. A shop!
For many years my day job had been teaching at the local university but at the end of last year I decided to throw caution [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vintagepurls.co.nz/Blog/?p=51</link>
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		<title>Blocking Wires NZ Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I do a little lace knitting and I&#8217;d read stuff by American knitters which referred to &#8220;blocking wires&#8221;. When I investigated this further it seemed like a way to ease the pain of blocking with just pins. The wires sold specifically to knitters for blocking seemed quite pricey and I&#8217;d read things about people using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vintagepurls.co.nz/Blog/?p=49</link>
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