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					<description><![CDATA[Well, hello there! It&#8217;s only been&#8230; two-and-a-half years since I&#8217;ve last popped in here! I&#8217;m still alive. As you can see, the site&#8217;s had a major makeover. That video up top features my own hands working on something for my brother-in-law. There have also been some updates to the pages listed in the menu, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, hello there! It&#8217;s only been&#8230; two-and-a-half years since I&#8217;ve last popped in here! I&#8217;m still alive.</p>
<div id="attachment_516" style="width: 535px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-516" class="size-large wp-image-516" src="http://www.mercurialknits.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/croppedrainbowmitts-1024x748.jpg" alt="Mercury wearing Knit the Rainbow Mitts." width="525" height="383" srcset="https://www.mercurialknits.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/croppedrainbowmitts-1024x748.jpg 1024w, https://www.mercurialknits.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/croppedrainbowmitts-600x438.jpg 600w, https://www.mercurialknits.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/croppedrainbowmitts-300x219.jpg 300w, https://www.mercurialknits.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/croppedrainbowmitts-768x561.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px" /><p id="caption-attachment-516" class="wp-caption-text">Wearing my Knit the Rainbow Mitts. Pattern published May 2017.</p></div>
<p>As you can see, the site&#8217;s had a major makeover. That video up top features my own hands working on something for my brother-in-law. There have also been some updates to the pages listed in the menu, and a whole new page: Patterns, where I&#8217;ve collected all of my own knitting patterns to date.  This includes two that were previously only available on my <em>even older</em> WordPress site, Emmy Knits. Those in particular have been given a bit of a refresh and spiffed up with the full PDF download treatment.</p>
<p>My health has reached a relatively stable state &#8211; the mystery illness I was plagued by for so long was actually irritable bowel syndrome, and now that I know that, I have ways of keeping it in check. I&#8217;m happy to say I haven&#8217;t had to check into the hospital since April 2014. This stability has also afforded me a chance to work a &#8220;normal&#8221; job again while still leaving me some knitting time. I&#8217;m currently an audio transcriber and audio transcription proofreader, which I do fully from home. It&#8217;s boosted my self-confidence tremendously.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to posting project updates, pattern works-in-progress, and newly finished patterns, as well as some more slice-of-life bits and pieces. If you&#8217;re into the slice-of-life stuff, might I recommend checking out my dear friend Silver&#8217;s podcast, <a href="https://silversdreamlandpodcast.com/">Silver&#8217;s Dreamland</a>? She has great knit-a-longs, several projects on the needles, and she&#8217;s just fun to listen to in general. Also, I&#8217;ll be a guest on an episode in a few weeks if you&#8217;re curious to hear what I sound like, and if you&#8217;re interested in what&#8217;s happening with Silver&#8217;s Knitted Treats. We may also have a video game-related pattern to debut. 😉</p>
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