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my favorite project has been this hat
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right here because I am in a Chinese
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course I i take the chinese language and
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so the professor gives us a name for
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gives each of us a name more small class
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so she gives us each name and i wanted
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to put it on a hat so um I have my
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Chinese name on the Hat and this took me
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forever to make and I made the pattern
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myself of course because you can't find
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a pattern with my Chinese name on it so
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I came up with the pattern myself and I
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just went for it and yeah and I'm really
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proud of it it came out really nicely
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whoa what has been my favorite project
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that is a tough question well my
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favorite project probably was the scarf
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I made for my mom last Christmas because
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while I was making it it was it was for
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her and at the time we'd kind of been
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arguing and disagreeing a little bit so
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it was it I felt bad about being angry
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and snippy with her so I tried to like
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direct all of my love in apologies into
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knitting the scarf and I watched like
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three seasons of how i met your mother
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on my computer while i was knitting it
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so I like binge don that and I remember
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I was like I gotta get the scarf done
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before and it's like the 24th and well
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technically the 25th at like 3am for I
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am I'm like finishing the scarf like I
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have to finish it before Christmas so I
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mean it's kind of a weird a weird one it
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wasn't super difficult or anything but I
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just knew that she'd really love the
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colors and it was kind of like a peace
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offering after we'd been fighting a
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little bit so there's a little bit of
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sentiment behind that one I guess this
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is our probably my current favorite
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project this is the first full sweater I
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have knit for myself it took me about
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nine months I think total that I didn't
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knit it continuously but I think it's my
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favorite thing right now
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that's hard um either my first pair of
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socks or um if you know rent um my
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sister really wanted a sweater like
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marks and they didn't really sell them
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so I was like fine i will make you one
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and i did and it looks terrible but she
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really likes it and I'm kind of proud of
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it that's a tough one my favorite
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project that I've worked on would
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probably be the first time I started to
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cable knit because like i don't i don't
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really knit using patterns i knit i try
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to figure it out as I go along so when I
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figured out kind of how to cable knit
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the first one that like it didn't come
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out well but I learned how I need to
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like work the yarn so that it comes out
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looking decent or liked good oh yeah so
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like some cable knitting there someone
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here but you can't really tell because
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it's dark but yeah so this shawl has a
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special story with the very first
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knitting retreat i went to i met a group
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of people all of them were at that and
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they would treat for the first time too
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and i had never met any of those people
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in person before i went to the knitting
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retreat through I found it through
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ravelry and signed up and went because
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it was in st. Louis and I was living in
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champaign illinois which was only three
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hours away so um I went to this retreat
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and I met all these people and then to
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retreats later we all also went to the
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retreat and we all decided to knit color
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affection that was that this is the
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pattern color affection so a whole bunch
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of us did kind of in it along for color
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affection I did it for the Christmas
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season and this took me at least eight
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hours to do scarves are incredibly
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redundant you just going back and forth
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back and forth over and over again and i
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made this double the thickness that you
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see you
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because at the end there's a tube so it
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was essentially cut here and twice the
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thickness of this and I realize how
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absurdly thick it was so i ended up
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sewing the two ends together and making
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it a tube so now when I it's cold in the
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winter I can put it around my neck and
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keep my arms in