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Tomorrow I get to give a presentation to the Seattle Knitters Guild, and I’m really looking forward to it – but that’s a recent development. For months, I had been dreading the event. The idea of public speaking didn’t bother me – after all, I teach for a living — but the possibility that I […]
This End Up
By JC | April 27, 2012
I just realized I never posted photos of the finished pedicure socks: I finished these socks just before leaving for Stitches South — as in, mere hours before, late last week Tuesday before getting up at 4:30am on Wednesday to head to the airport. (No wonder I didn’t think to blog about ’em.) Through sheer […]
Bright ideas
By JC | April 25, 2012
Now available! The long-awaited workshop schedule for Interweave Knitting Lab California is up and ready for review. Be sure to check out the special events, and the “post-event” classes on Sunday afternoon that come bundled with a Meet and Greet opportunity. Classes on several topics call to me: brioche lace, colorwork tams, flawless zipper installation, […]
Gratifying
By JC | April 24, 2012
Wanna see what I did at Stitches South? On my way to Stitches, I realized I had a chunk of free time on Sunday afternoon before my flight home – enough time to take a class, something I haven’t had a chance to do in years. Edie Eckman graciously said I could sit in on […]
Ready
By JC | April 17, 2012
Just in time for Stitches South: Vital stats: Going Green from knit, Swirl!, in Mirasol Nuna, on 3.5 mm needles. Oddly, the Swirl is an eensy bit small, despite substantial swatching efforts and my prediction that it might turn out a tad large. Oh, well. It’s still eminently wearable. And the fabric! Nuna’s blend of […]
On target
By JC | April 9, 2012
The Swirl progressed nicely over the weekend, thanks to knitting while watching The Help (that’s a solid 2.5 hours right there) and knitting while on the front porch Sunday afternoon (in the sun! while wearing a T-shirt and a sun hat, not a heavy jacket and earmuffs!). I’m nearly done with welt 58, so that […]
It’s amazing what a little time spent on airplanes does for my knitting productivity: Before heading to the DFW Fiber Fest – which was wonderful, by the way! I hope to be invited back for an encore visit! – I had completed just a short bit of the first sock. By the time my flight […]
Which means
By JC | March 28, 2012
Friday is the first day of the DFW Fiber Fest (whee! can’t wait!), which means Thursday is a travel day, which means today is laundry and packing day, which means yesterday was start-some-travel-knitting day: I plan to produce socks that pretty much match the photo in the pattern that my mom sent: über-plain stockinette, with […]
Today’s trip to the mailbox revealed a surprise package from my mom: (What you need to know is that my mom is not a knitter. She’s an enthusiastic gardener – which takes some dedication, given that she lives outside Buffalo, NY – but she doesn’t knit, crochet, sew, weave, or spin. In contrast, I’m all […]
Really?
By JC | March 16, 2012
Really? It’s Friday already? And the second half of March? How’d that happen?? Oh, yeah. It’s because I’ve been deeply submerged in a secret project. It’s big; I’ve been having fun; you’re gonna love it… but it ain’t ready yet. Coming up for air only occasionally means progress on my Swirl has been a little […]