Jul 1st 2013
Think of having to cook for Julia Child. I know all about how gut-wrenching such a proposition might be so you can imagine my delight when our new future daughter-in-law (the lovely Ms Marian) m…
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Apr 30th 2013
We have had such a cold and miserable and WET time the past few months. Rain and roof leaks and folks here with water in finished basements. Honestly last week we had snow showers. And then yester…
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Apr 30th 2013
Guest Blog Post by: Kate Atherley, Magic Loop & 2 CircularsAlthough double-pointed needles were the traditional solution for knitting in the round, circular knitting needles, invented in the late…
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Apr 1st 2013
Hi, Signature Needle Arts Fans, if you follow me at all on my blog , Twitter @SusanBAnderson, Facebook, or Instagram , you will already know how much I love my Signature circular needles and sets…
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Nov 30th 2012
It is pretty obvious that my New Year’s Resolution should be to do a better job of keeping up with the blog. It is not that nothing has happened, but that lots has. Everything from holiday hilarit…
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Oct 3rd 2012
A favorite blog I read is Mason-Dixon Knitting and on one of the latest entries talks about a new book called Knit Your Own Dog, by Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne. It looks like something dog lovers…
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Sep 1st 2012
As a person who can truthfully say I gave birth to an 8# 13 oz baby with no anesthesia, I will tell you that getting the “little” circs out was a million times harder—and remember, a baby that siz…
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Aug 15th 2012
Summer: Lovers and Haters I know that those of you are sad that the heat of summer is coming to the end. But for I say HOORAY! We have had the most horrible, hot, drought ridden summer that I can…
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Jul 15th 2012
Like so much of the country we have been brutalized by high temperatures and drought. Of course the most concern is for the farmers here in the heartland who provide so much food for our country.…
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Jun 18th 2012
I know many of you have enjoyed the “Signature Circle” where you can meet some of our special customers. We hope that this will help you and us open up to how wide the world of knitting really is.…
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May 2nd 2012
When Signature was quite new we had a customer who took the chance and returned for more and more needles. She is from a part of Michigan that was going through some hard times and we became acqua…
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Apr 25th 2012
I wanted to make a sweater for a special new baby who is the son of a close friend of our son’s. Seemed pretty simple—a cardigan with hood. I used a pattern from an English designer and that is wh…
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