I had so much fun collaborating with Jimmy Bean’s Wool for their Twelve Days of Christmas promotion that we decided to do it again! This time, however, the holiday we’re celebrating is Valentine’s Day. We put our heads together and decided to offer a limited edition colorway in honor of February 14th, in my Luna base yarn, which has subtle…
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In which I get kissed on the lips by a hot chick, sell a lot of yarn, and run into J. Lo
This week is one of those weeks when I feel like the president of the Lucky Club. I just had the most amazing weekend in New York City with my people. It was VK Live’s fifth anniversary, and the show was packed with students, shoppers, designers and others from the industry. I got to teach an amazing group of students…
VK Live is Five! (Come see us in Booth 705)
I have been honored to be a part of VK Live: New York from its very inception five years ago. And I’m super-excited to be heading out to NYC again, to be a part of the fifth anniversary show. I’m teaching and vending, and I hope you will stop by and check out Booth 705 because we’ve got some amazing…
Sneak preview: Lace Yarn Studio
It seems like I’ve been working on Lace Yarn Studio for years. Well, I actually have been working on it for about two years, when I first floated the idea of doing a sequel to Sock Yarn Studio focusing on lace weight yarns. And after many months of swatching, knitting, ripping out, writing, proofreading, and so on, Lace Yarn Studio:…
2014: A Look Back
What an eventful year 2014 was for me — and not always in a good way. I started the year off by losing two very dear, though geographically distant, friends. In late spring, my mother-in-law — that fiesty, eccentric, often difficult personality — went into the hospital with what we thought was pneumonia and never came home. Lung cancer took…
Now accepting members: Round 2 of our Yarn Club!
Earlier this year, my dear friend Brooke Nico and I brought you a very special beta version of our yarn club. We had such a good time doing it – and more importantly, our members did, too – that we’re doing it again. The Sip Sip Knit Yarn Club (Brooke came up with that name after our first round –…
No-Bull Book Review: Magpies, Homebodies & Nomads, by Cirilia Rose
I’ve had my eye on Cirilia Rose for a while — not in a creepy, stalkerish kind of way, but because from the first time I was introduced to her, I was struck by her charisma, talent and style. I always think of Cirilia as a kid, probably because I’m old enough to be her mother cool younger aunt, but…
Favorite books I read: 2014 edition
It’s the time of year when people start creating “Best of” lists. I read a lot and used to talk more about non-knitting books on my blog, until I started using Goodreads to keep track of my reading and do quick reviews. But since I love getting recommendations for good books to read, I’ll join the many other writers and…
Oldies but goodies: It’s that time again….
Since it was recently my blogiversary, I have thought about some of my favorite posts from the past nine (!) years of blogging. And this post is one of my all-time faves. It’s short but says it all and was written in early December 2006, when I heard the song “The Christmas Shoes” for the first time. Here you go:…