While my dear friend Brooke Nico is teaching lace classes, I’ll be there with plenty of scrumptious laceweight (including a new base, a blend of Falkland wool and bamboo) and sock yarn! See you soon at Loop!
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A break
Our first week at the shore has come and gone. We had glorious weather–until the last 2 days. Then it poured. But that was okay. We still had plenty of time for playing on the beach, and catching up on our reading. We had some excellent parcheesi games, too. Alliances were made, at least temporarily, and Boy Twin took some…
Art Is…
When you work in a creative field, certain questions present themselves over and over. Where’s the line between staying true to your vision and selling out? What does success mean and how does it affect your work? How does one work through roadblocks in the creative process? How do the demands of family, friends, colleagues interfere with or inspire your…
Happy birthday, Dad
It still amazes me sometimes that my dad is no longer with us. Just the other day, my mom and I discovered two old letters, one from the 1950s and one from the 1960s, that my grandmother received from some cousins in Poland, and we sighed wistfully at how my dad would have been able to translate them for us…
Preview: Vogue Knitting Early Fall
It’s always exciting when the first fall knitting magazines start arriving. A few years ago, Vogue Knitting decided to add a fifth issue called “Early Fall,” to coincide with the time in the summer when new autumn yarns first start arriving in shops. I was given a free copy of the 2013 Early Fall VK while I was at TNNA,…
TNNA Recap
I’m back from a jam-packed weekend at TNNA, and as usual, I feel tired and happy and bursting with new things to think about and work on. (TNNA is The National Needlearts Association, a trade group consisting of the yarn industries: both knitting/crochet and other needlecrafts like cross-stitch and needlepoint. Their big annual show is in late spring/early summer, showcasing…
See you in Columbus!
It’s time for the annual trade show TNNA, starting today (I think) in Columbus, Ohio. I’m leaving tomorrow and will spend the weekend scouting out what’s new in the yarn industry, meeting up with friends and colleagues, and networking. (Do people “network” anymore?) If you’re attending the show, please note that I will be signing copies of Sock Yarn Studio…
And the winner is…..
Pamela, who said that if she won Kristin Nicholas’s new sunflower book, she “would fill a vase with knitted and crochet sunflowers to display on my dining room table.” Congratulations! I’ll be mailing the book out to Pamela this week. Meanwhile, we had a fabulous weekend at Loop for my Black Bunny Fibers trunk show. Lots of folks went home…
GIVEAWAY + Book Review: Kristin Nicholas’s new Sunflower book
You know how much I adore Kristin Nicholas. So when she offered to send me a copy of her new book–and include an extra copy so I could give one away to a lucky reader–I was all over it like a flock of birds over a freshly-washed car. Let’s take a look at 50 Sunflowers to Knit, Crochet & Felt,…