Cover
Did I show you the cover? No, I don't think I did. Now there's every chance you don't actually care (which would be a totally reasonable way to feel...I likely wouldn't much care if it wasn't my own book), but I'm rather taken with it. See? Those yellow socks more or less slay me every time. You guys seem to like them too. And there's also a back cover of course. It shows off the purple socks (they wrestle with the yellow ones for the status of my very favorite socks ever...so far it's a tie). As always, click to [...]
Hooky
When playing hooky, it is best not to have too much of an advance plan. A certain element of spontaneity is necessary if you're to have the proper atmosphere of indulgence and excess. That being said, my weekend hooky session did have a few things that needed to be planned. The Boy needed to be to the airport on time (he was flying off to visit his sister), the Kitten Overlords needed to be fed and watered in our absence, and I needed a place to sleep while I was away. The rest was fairly freeform. I started by heading [...]
Countdown
So...it's done. All done (which is why I desperately needed to play hooky this past weekend). The Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet has gone off to the printer, and the electronic version is ready to go. I'll be putting it out on Tuesday, March 13. This means that if you've bought the electronic version, or if you've ordered the physical version and gotten the electronic version to go with it, the full version will magically appear in your Ravelry library some time next Tuesday. When it does, you'll get both a ravelry message and an email letting you know it's been updated. [...]
Well that was Refreshing
I'm a firm believer in the restorative power of playing hooky. Sometimes it's the only appropriate response to a given situation...or at least sometimes it's the best response to a given situation. So this weekend, I played hooky. I ran off to Lansing to spend the weekend with some old friends. I had thought I would tell you all about it, but it turns out that it's hard to describe a bunch of grown women dissolving into fits of helpless giggles over the most ridiculous of in jokes. I tried, it just loses something in the translation. Suffice it to [...]
Back Soon
Sorry for the radio silence. I ran away from home and blithely shirked all adult responsibility for the weekend. The good news is that this means I'll have plenty to tell you about once I'm back to being a grown up next week. Until then, I highly recommend the shirking and suggest you consider it from time to time too.
The Only One?
Am I the only one who has found themselves brushing their teeth into the shower because there's something soaking in the sink and the thought of taking it out and dealing with it properly is just too overwhelming to contemplate before bed? Because if I am the only one, then I have reached a new and unprecedented level of laziness. And if I'm not, it's reassuring to know there are others of my kind out there.
Naughty Designer
What I really really should knit? The last few rows of the cowl. It's achingly close to done. What I have been knitting? Swatches. For you see, I have this plan...this plan for a hat...this plan for a hat that will be either the cutest or the ugliest thing you ever did see. Only time (and more swatching) will tell. But first...I must finish this cowl. I get to see some friends this weekend and I think I will be able to sweet talk one or two of them into modeling it for me!
References
I am not temperamentally inclined to follow instructions. I never have been. I'm far more likely to make it up on my own and then to pester other people to do it the way I decided to do it (which is likely not nearly as charming as I imagine). But this tendency to wing it only works if you've got a good, solid grounding in whatever the subject at hand is. Experimenting is good, flailing is not. It's that background knowledge that helps mark the difference between the two. But sometimes, if you're very lucky, you can borrow a bit [...]
Trudge
The mitts are done. The cowl...is not. It needs about 6 more rows, maybe 10, which doesn't sound like all that much. But the rows are long, and I am lazy. The combination means it's surprisingly slow going around here. I have a sneaking suspicion I may take these two patterns and a few more and combine them in a little collection of reversible projects. I've been toying with the idea of doing some small sets of patterns (4-6 items) in addition to releasing patterns individually. These seem like a fun place to start.
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