Posts Tagged “classes”
Did you catch The Yarn Thing podcast this morning? (Yes, yes, I know I should’ve reminded y’all about it yesterday. My flimsy excuse was that I was out of the house and away from all computers practically all day.) Marly and I had a grand time talking about disastrous first projects, not knowing that designing […]
Mark your calendars: next Tuesday, June 12th, I get to be part of Marly Bird’s The Yarn Thing podcast! We’ll talk about Charts Made Simple (“what? that old thing again?”) and whatever else pops into our heads. Ooh, my first live interview… I hope I don’t sound like a dolt! In other news, registration for […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Road trip
By JC | January 23, 2012
Next May, I get to road trip to Seattle. The knitting guild there has asked me to be the featured speaker for their monthly guild meeting. Whee! Ought to be fun… just as soon as I figure out exactly what I’ll talk about. Charts in some form or another, I suppose. Maybe “Chart Symbols: Not […]
The news is out: I get to be one of the designers in the 2012 Knit Purl Sock Club. In keeping with the theme of “Masterpieces,” each kit’s colorway and pattern will take inspiration from a famous work of art. I can’t tell you anything more than that – the specific works of art are […]
XRX has posted the class schedule for Stitches South – and, jeez, it’s jam-packed again. I’m looking forward to teaching some of my favorite classes. Two of ’em are new to Stitches South: Bind-off Bonanza and Socktastic Stitch Patterns. Registration opens at 9am Central time on the 22nd, so you have a whole week to […]
Remember that Haapsalu shawl I wrote about in my last post? I decided to place a narrow border around the whole thing. Traditionally, that’d mean knitting the body of the shawl, then separately knitting the edging from the outside in and sewing it in place. I may decide instead to pick up edging stitches from […]
Stitches South was a blast, as usual. A highlight for me when two students who were in last year’s Charts Made Simple class said that instead of refusing to buy patterns with charts, they now refuse to buy patterns without charts—whoo hoo! Also, Yarn Barn of Kansas reported selling 90+ copies of Charts Made Simple—possibly […]