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Buying a gift card is a bitter sweet activity for me. On one hand, I'm giving a gift that gives in two ways--you get it as a gift, then they get to go shop with it, so it kinda doubles the enjoyment. Also, of course, they get exactly what they want.

On the other hand, it's kind of impersonal and can carry that negative connotation that I didn't put much thought into it.

The designers at Knit Picks have saved the day.

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I have three pieces of news for you to cram into this one blog post, so stop and stretch first and take a deep cleansing breath. Ready? Here we go:

1. The winner of the final contest in the "Give One Away" Knit Along is "soonerknitter." You can read her story about giving her tote to her Grandmother… Continue

AmongTheRoses for her idea to make paper out of dryer lint!

AmongTheRoses had several really great entries for this contest, including:

Her son using bottle caps as "army guys," and he stores them all in an old coffee can when not in use
She uses old pantyhose as shoe shiners
Her and her children saved cellophane candy wrappers to complete a "stained glass" project
And she uses any possible scrap paper, from holiday wrapping paper to shredded junk mail to pack up her moving boxes.

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Here's Melissa and Alice

These are photos to go with Melissa's post about our Knit in Public day today at the park in Vancouver.

For the record, Meliss… Continue