National Craft Month promotions
I try not to get too smarmy in this blog, but this time it's for a good cause.
Today through March 13, Craftsy is celebrating National Craft Month in a …
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Ask anyone who’s been teaching knitting at the “big” events for a couple years (or anyone who’s done a fair bit of designing, I suppose), and they’ll tell you they …
...moreI could not have said it better myself
Yesterday, while scoping out the knitting shelves at a local bookstore, I found a gently used copy of Martha Waterman’s Traditional Knitted Lace Shawls. Since I’m in the middle …
...moreInspired
Last weekend’s test-run of my new Wedge Shawl Design class went quite well, if I do say so myself. Oh, sure, there was a hiccup or two, and you know …
...moreBusy, busy, busy
Did you take some time off this holiday weekend? I did. It was fabulous.
But now it’s back to work, and oh, my. If I think too much …
...moreFinis
Yet another pair of toe socks, finished:
Blue Moon Fiber Arts®
Socks that Rock® mediumweight
They’re much the same as my …
...moreReady to travel
With the repair of DH’s socks out of the way, I’m back to making good progress on my toe socks:
Having grafted together …
...moreMore toes
Grab a cup of tea; this is gonna be a long one.
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I’d like to tell you that I finished two pairs of socks in the past …
...moreWhee!
While at Stitches East this past weekend (a fabulous event, as always), I found out that I get to teach at next February’s Madrona retreat. I don’t yet know exactly …
...moreEntrelac Knitting at Craftsy
It can be a little weird to teach a class while knowing that another teacher is scheduled to teach essentially the same class at the same event. For instance, I’m …
...moreThe Yarn Thing
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 …
...moreUpcoming fun and games
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 …
...moreBright ideas
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 …
...moreWhich means
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 …
...moreReally?
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 …
...moreRoad trip
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 …
...moreSign-up time
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 …
...moreGoing south
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 …
...moreMaybe by March
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 …
...moreThree quick announcements
- 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 …
Down the rabbit hole
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 …
...moreToday is Thursday
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.
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...moreSock news
Sock Summit 2011 is approaching fast, and nobody knows it better than ST-1. Among a million other tasks, they’ve got to figure out who will teach what during four …
...moreThat time again
In the past few weeks I haven’t been doing any teaching. (With good reason! Who wants to take a knitting class during the holiday season?) But that doesn’t mean I’ve …
...moreJumbotron
Recently I haven’t been blogging about interesting knitting projects because... well, because this is what I’ve been knitting:
Oodles of I-cord. Yards and yards of I-cord. …
...moreTempe
It’s official: this September I get to teach at Tempe Yarn and Fiber. I’m looking forward to it – I’ve heard all kinds of good things about the shop.
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...moreMatching CO and BO
Last weekend was Black Sheep Gathering. As usual, it was a blast and a half. I missed out on the Sheep to Shawl competition, but I got to watch …
...moreKnit Nation
Have you heard about Knit Nation?
Like the sign says, “Learn, shop, knit, spin!” The more I think about it, the more thrilled I am to be …
...moreA few minor hiccups
XRX has just posted the brochure for Stitches Midwest – and it looks like it’ll be a fabulous event! The schedule is packed with lots of new classes. And I’m …
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