Playing Favorites
I'm in the middle of the best part of book making. The part where I've chatted with some of my very favorite people in the yarn industry, they've graciously agreed to let me experiment with their beautiful yarns, they've mailed them to me, and I get to play with them. This tray of yarn is sitting on my desk right now. These will be the socks for the book after next, and I love each and every one of them. Starting at the top left, there's Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock in Buckingham Fountain, and right under it is Mrs. Crosby [...]
Crumple
Further proof that I am knitting (lest you be concerned). Alas, the things I am knitting are all fodder for the book after next. (On a side note, penultimate means the one before the last. Is there a word for the one after the next? I feel there should be, but I'm at a loss as to what it might be. If anyone knows I'll be very grateful.) So that means I can show you crumpled bits like this, and I can talk about the yarn (Frog Tree Yarns Pediboo Sport Tonal, and yummy stuff it is too), but I [...]
Suitable
I've spoken before about how, when I first started knitting, I thought "suitable needles" meant needles that look pretty with the yarn, rather than needles that give appropriate gauge. It made for some rather memorable early projects. But every now and then, just by chance, the needles that look lovely with the yarn will happen to give perfect gauge. That, plus a healthy stretch of stockinette, makes for the most meditative knitting imaginable. The yarn is Creme in Seaglass by Phydeaux Designs. It's delicious. And so is this project, though you can't see any more of it for a long [...]
Muted
I'm worried a few of you may be laboring under a terrible misconception. One or two of you may have gotten the sense that there's not been much knitting around here. After all, the last thing I showed you I knit was the Trey cuff back in early June (which was itself my attempt to remind myself that I do indeed like knitting). But just because I haven't been showing you much knitting doesn't mean I've not been stabbing yarn with needles on a regular basis. Quite the contrary. It's just that I've not been showing you what I'm knitting. [...]
Timeline
Sunday evening- 8:30 The show we planned to attend officially began. 8:39 I (hair damp from a recent shower and firmly ensconced in my pajamas) recalled that we were planning to attend said show. 8:40-8:41 I expressed my frustration and exasperation at this lack of good planning and forethought in a heartfelt and vigorous sort of way while dashing downstairs to The Boy's office to inform him of the situation. 8:41-8:42 The Boy joined in this expression of dismay with equal fervor, and, after careful consideration, we decided to see if we could set the land speed record for rolling [...]
Gold Star
I have come to the conclusion that I deserve a gold star sticker for successful adult-ing over the last two weeks. In that time I put a few hundred books in the mail, went to Detroit for a show, came home, put a few hundred more books in the mail, went to Toronto for another show, came home, and put the very last of the preorder books in the mail. Somewhere in there I actually managed to do a few loads of laundry, cook a few meals, do a few loads of dishes, and take enough showers not to raise [...]
Pattern Spotlight and Yarn Giveaway
The last time we did this was so much fun, I can't help but do it again! I happen to have a bit more yarn from KCC3 to give away, and I think you're going to love it. This time it's the Bunodes crassicornis projects in Malabrigo's delicious yarns. That's Arroyo on the socks, and Rios on the hat. I've got two extra skeins of the Rios (in the color used in the book), and I'd like to send them off to two of you. I like having two ways to win, so let's do it again, shall we? For [...]
Busy busy busy
I'm just about to get in the car and head home (The Boy and I have been up in Toronto on an exploit which I will detail later). But before I do, I wanted to send one tiny reminder that today is the last day for the preorder discount on Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet Volume III. Tomorrow morning the last of the preorders go in the mail (I know lots of you have already gotten yours!), and that means preorder special pricing ends. So on the off chance you'd been meaning to order and hadn't quite gotten around to it, today's [...]
Two at a Time
We've established that I have rather eclectic taste in music (and eclectic may be the polite word...it may actually be that I have rather dreadful taste in music, but I'm ok with that). And we've established that The Boy and I have a pronounced propensity to dart off for the evening for a concert at the slightest provocation. So it should have come as no surprise when we found ourselves settled in the car Friday afternoon headed to Detroit. For you see, The Two Man Gentlemen Band happened to be playing at Cliff Bell's, and it seemed a shame not [...]
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