Anastasia Popova

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  1. The secret is out!!! — 10 comments
  2. Arianna Baby Blanket — 6 comments
  3. Snow Queen Hat now in crochet — 6 comments
  4. I won!!!!! — 5 comments
  5. Farewell 2010 — 4 comments

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Jan 06

Coming Soon…

While the snow was still down we had a short photo shoot for some patterns that I have in works.  Here is a preview The last picture is from photo shoot with Michelle from about two month ago.  This pattern will be available very shortly, as soon as my wonderful tech editor will be able …

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Jan 05

Sneak Preview

I’ve been working very hard on a new pattern.  My very first garment pattern!  I really wanted to design a top down seamless cardigan, since I really like good fitting garments and do not like sewing.  I choose very soft fingering weight yarn that I got on a great sale at Smiley’s yarn. Here is …

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Jan 05

New Look

I am working on giving a new look to the blog. So please don’t freak out that it looks differently, it is still me.

Jan 01

Baby Brie

The last pattern that became available in 2010 is Baby Brie.  It’s a pattern for a earflap hat with a huge flower.

This hat was designed for baby Brianna, whose mommy really wanted a simple hat with earflaps and a huge flower. Baby Brie is worked in rounds from the top down. Flower is made separately and sewn afterwards. Directions are given to make flower smaller.

Jan 01

Farewell 2010

It’s been a great year! Personal * This year my other half, Maksim, proposed to me and I said yes.  Now I got my self into planning a wedding, like I was not busy enough already.  Not complaining though :), he is a great guy.  Among his other wonderful qualities he support my yarn habits …

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Dec 28

Technology hates me Part 2

It went something like that Me: my posts about my grandma and the cell phone disaster disappeared, sob, cry Maksim: I am sorry, babe, but we have a bigger problem Me: haah?  (what can be a bigger problem) Maksim: one of our websites was hacked, my 1500 member forum Me: Haah? Maksim: someone hacked into …

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Dec 27

Technology hates me Part 1

I woke up Saturday to what seemed to an innocent message from my cell phone: ” hey, do you want to install a cool update to make you super cool phone even cooler?”  So I clicked “sure”.  “It will take few minutes and you wont’ be able to make any phone calls”. “OK”. Fast forward …

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