Simply Knitting - UK (2020-01)

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YOUR KNITS

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workingonotherpartsofa pattern!

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Theessentials– a penandnotebook!

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A latchhooktoweavefinished ends through.

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ended,double-sizedcrochethook.I usethisto

pickupdroppedstitchesorbringingpurposely

droppedstitchesbacktotheneedleafter

changingthemfromknittopurl.

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scissorsattachedtoa needlecushion,witha

darningneedlealwaysstuckinit.Thiswasone of

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