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Curious skills I’d like to master

his morning, I judged the length of tail for a long-tailed cast on just right, first time. No measuring, no calculating, I just pulled out the yarn until it seemed appropriate for what I needed, and 90 stitches later, there it was: perfection. High on hubris and yarn fumes, I felt like the most skilled knitter

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