Posts Tagged “trip report”

Gone

By | July 1, 2011

What do you mean it’s July? Where did June go? Oh, yeah. First there was TNNA, where Sandra McIver’s knit, Swirl! was the hit of the show floor. Then, right on its heels, Knitters Connection. Whew! First time I taught eight classes in the span of four days. No wonder I was exhausted when I […]

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I went to Spring Fling and all I got were Monkey Farts

By | May 3, 2011

Not true, of course: I came away from The Loopy Ewe’s Spring Fling with a bunch of surprise goodies. But when I won a “Monkey Farts”-scented lotion bar as a door prize… …a group of Flingers decided I needed a T-shirt that read “I went to Spring Fling and all I got were Monkey Farts.” […]

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Three quick announcements

By | April 20, 2011

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 […]

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Down the rabbit hole

By | April 6, 2011

Once upon a time, I managed a computer lab with a raised floor. Cables of all sorts ran under floor tiles that you could lift, revealing a hoard of dust bunnies in addition to the cables. Fortunately, I didn’t have to lift the tiles or deal with the dust bunnies very often. Unfortunately, these particular […]

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Today is Thursday

By | February 23, 2011

Franklin Habit wrote a too-true post last week about the disorientation that comes with travel, and needing to remind himself where he is and what he needs to do. For me, the disorientation comes after I return home. “Re-entry” can take days. For instance, I got back from Stitches West late on Sunday. Monday and […]

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Is it startitis, or …?

By | November 3, 2010

Before a retreat in early September, I cast on for a cardigan, skipping my usual planning and calculating. I “needed” a substantial project to last me through the retreat. Current status: stalled, waiting for a chance to figure out the armhole and neck shaping. Before heading to Tempe in late September, I cast on for […]

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More than halfway

By | September 27, 2010

Fingerless gloves turned out to be the perfect project to take on my trip to Tempe Yarn and Fiber. I got the first glove knit to the thumb opening before teaching All Thumbs on Thursday evening, so I was able to demo the process of setting the gusset stitches aside during class. In the evenings, […]

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So little to show

By | August 5, 2010

I just spent a week in London at Knit Nation, and all I have to show for it is this: Oh, don’t get me wrong. Knit Nation was a blast, as you can see on the other teachers’ blogs. I just couldn’t be bothered to record it in photos. (Go ahead, call me lazy. It […]

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