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I love everything about fall: the vibrant color, the crisp air, the crunch of leaves underfoot. The one thing I don’t love about autumn is that it seems so fleeting; the bare branches of winter are revealed too quickly. The projects in this issue are designed to help you extend the beauty of autumn well into those bare-branch days. Here you will find crispness and color in the Taking Sides story, which explores various crochet projects— from socks to sweaters—with side-to-side construction. In Lace Embrace, the Ananas Shawl captures the peekaboo of sky through fall’s ombré, and the Torchlight Shawl embodies the sparkle of morning dew on a carpet of newly fallen maple leaves. And, although school days are behind some of us, fall brings on that back-to-school feeling, calling for new…