Smashing
The photo shoot was this weekend and it went wonderfully well. I couldn't have asked for better. The weather was perfect, the locations were properly picturesque, everyone looked marvelous, and Zoë did amazing things with her camera. All of the knitting and props made it home safe, no one was [...]
Packed
My packing list for tomorrow's photo shoot includes (in part): heads, hands, feet, needles, pliers. It really does read like I'm packing up after a small murder spree. I promise though, there's not been any carnage...yet. Everybody keep a good thought tomorrow and Saturday. With any luck at all, this [...]
Why Knitters Drink
Allow me to demonstrate: For the conveniently sized bottles for blocking of course. Whatever were you thinking? That's a blueberry liqueur and a cranberry liqueur bottle from Ironworks Distillery in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (anybody around there? Please go try the rum for me. We had a taste when we were [...]
Not Totally Un-Yarnlike
It certainly doesn't look like the stuff you'd buy in the store, but it does have many yarnlike qualities. Remember, I am a rubbish spinner. I am, somewhat surprisingly, fairly comfortable with that. It's about 70 yards in sort of a sport to dk weight. I've got some solid color [...]
Not a Complete Failure
You guys are awesome to offer suggestions, thank you. Let me see if I can explain my thinking just a bit. When I decided to pick this particular bit of fluff back up, I sort of needed to get reacquainted with it. One of the things I wanted to know [...]
Rank Amateur
I am a crap spinner. No, really. Crap. I have no skill. I have put in very little practice. My approach to date has been 'pretend...I'm sure if I just pretend, I'll grasp it by instinct without the application of any effort.' So far, not much success, but it is [...]
Prep Work
We are now less than one week out from the photo shoot for KCC2. This means I have allowed my inner organizational nutcase free rein. If I feel like pinning tags with lists of photos needed to each item, then I do. If I feel the need to make a [...]
Blue
I'm working on some socks. This, this is not news. Alas, the plans for these socks are a wee bit in the air at the moment. The details of their fate need to be secured before I can tell you too much about them. It's making me twitchy. I've actually [...]
Stacks
Yup, still amused. Part of the stacks series. Click for a bigger pic. Books shown are The Origin of Humankind, Naked, Fragile Things, Making Sex.
New Pattern, Ameliorate (Plus Coupon)
ameliorate: verb -to make better or more tolerable Every now and then, I hear from someone who says they like my designs...they just wish I put them out more frequently. Now my first response is to be flattered. That's actually a lovely thing to say. My second response is a [...]
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