Double-Sided Buttons
It's not often you get to take out your pliers for your knitting. That's a shame. I like my pliers, and I want to use them more often. I found a way to sneak them into Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet, Volume II as part of the Vanessa antiopa Cowl. (That pattern is part of the knit along that's going on now, so if you want to get your pliers out too, feel free to join us.) I used my pliers to make double-sided buttons. You can see here how I used three of them to hold the cowl together. This is [...]
Vanessa antiopa Knit Along
I'll be having knit alongs for each of the pattern pairs in The Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet, Volume II. We're starting this month with the two patterns inspired by the Vanessa antiopa print (you can click on the print to see it bigger, it really is quite lovely). That's these charming yellow socks: And this amazingly versatile purple cowl. If you'd like to join in, swing on by the ravelry thread and get knitting. This is pretty laid back for a knit along (too many rules make my head hurt). The general idea is cast on any time now...knit...post a picture [...]
Up Up and Away
In a rather unexpected turn of events, I found out on Monday that I'm headed off to San Francisco for a few weeks on, um, Sunday. Sunday, that day that comes after tomorrow. Sunday morning no less. This is certainly good news, and I fully expect it to be a lovely trip. But it is now also the top contender for shortest notice trip ever (in my personal pantheon of trips that is, I'm sure there are folks out there who dash off much farther afield on far shorter notice, but they're cooler than I am). So I am currently: [...]
Swatch…Bare Naked
I've been a fan of Anne's work for just about as long as I've been knitting. She has an aesthetic and style that really stands out, and it's always easy to spot one of her designs! So when I heard she'd turned her talent to making yarns, I was excited to try them. I had great fun swatching four of the yarns up (click any of the pictures for bigger versions). Anne's new yarns, and my new book, seemed to offer a perfect opportunity for me to talk a bit about a subject of interest to most knitters, yarn substitutions! [...]
Noble Resolve
Having successfully sent of every single one of the preordered books (more than a week ahead of the deadline, thank you very much!), and given the unseasonably awesome weather, a little trip to the Great Lakes Fiber Show seemed to be in order this weekend. This has become something of a tradition. We went in 2012, 2010 (no blog entry, shameful I tell you, shameful), and 2009. Once again, I exercised uncharacteristic restraint. I swear I'm getting pickier about yarn by the day. I'm able to resist most yarn, no matter how tempting. It's only the really good stuff that still [...]
Easier than Expected
Well, that went even better than expected. The postman took all those packages (I harbored doubts...I imagined him taking one a day for the next few years or something equally dreadful). But no, they all went! I'll be putting out more packages today and Friday, and then they'll all be shipped! And, because someone will come say 'but I didn't know!' on Saturday and I'll feel terribly guilty, here is the very last reminder. Preorders end tomorrow. Tomorrow morning. As soon as I set the last package on the porch and have a cup of tea, I'll come up here [...]
One, Two, Three
Step 1: addresses and postage on labels Step 2: labels on envelopes Step 3: things in envelopes, envelopes sealed Step 4: envelopes on the porch for the postman (I made an appointment...after last year's incident, I vowed we'd be doing it from home this year) Step 5: feel just the tiniest bit bad for the post man Rinse and repeat. Another day or two, and they'll be done!
I Don’t Think You’ll Mind Too Much
You know how I often come on here and explain that I've not been knitting much lately? And then I say I'm sorry, both because I like knitting (would be a bit awkward if I didn't) and because I like to show you my knitting? Yeah, well, I've not been knitting, but I'm also not sorry. I'm not sorry, because I've been doing this (ahem, these are not all the envelopes, not by a long shot, these are just what fits on the table at once). And this (and no, that's not all the envelopes either, that's just what got [...]
Stick it in Your Ear
And no, I'm not being rude! 'Stick a book in your ear' is the motto of the delightful CraftLit podcast (and the sister production, Just the Books, which leaves out all the crafty bits...but I figure you guys likely don't mind the odd bit of crafty talk here and there). Craftlit is the brain child of Heather Ordover, mastermind behind the delightful What Would Madame Defarge Knit? series. I've been listening to the show for more or less forever, and I had the pleasure of working with Heather on both of the first two Defarge books. This past week, Heather [...]
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