Although I was a voracious reader as a child, and thought I’d read just about every children’s classic book that our library had, I never stumbled across Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This shocks me, as the charming story of orphan Anne Shirley, who is sent to live with an older couple on Prince Edward Island, is…
Happy new year!
The past few weeks have been even busier than I anticipated. We are (I hope) nearing the end of the unplanned home reno project. Christmas is over. Apart from other deadlines that are imminent, I’ve been trying to get a book manuscript in. Things are going very well, but I always am a bit too optimistic when it comes to…
Catching up
It’s always chaotic at my house, but it’s been especially crazy here lately. Right after I returned from Rhinebeck, a sewer pipe got blocked, spewing filthy water all over our ground floor. We had to rip up flooring and do lots of cleaning to avoid mildew. Feh. This is what the family room looks like now: We’re hoping the floor…
A new generation
My oldest rediscovered knitting this summer, and it’s been wonderful to watch him produce some beautiful handcrafted items almost effortlessly. Before school started, he and his friend (you may recognize her as one of my gorgeous Black Bunny Fibers pattern models) made a video about learning to knit hats, featuring the Schachenmayr yarns used for the My Mountain promotion. Although…
No-Bull Book Review: The Knit Stitch Pattern Handbook, by Melissa Leapman
I have a pal in the industry who, when she isn’t sure what the right or best thing is to do, asks herself “What would Melissa Leapman do?” I know exactly what my pal means, because my admiration for Melissa is sky-high. She is such a class act; incredibly productive but everything she produces is wonderful (I wish I could…
Book Look: Hitch, edited by Stephannie Tallent
An ordinary knitter wakes up one morning. It’s not a special day; just a typical get-dressed-and-head-out-to-work day. She walks outside and sees a cluster of black birds hovering overhead in a frenzy, their raucous caws sending chills up her spine. She pulls her Bodega Bay Stole closer, shaken by the fact that the bird motifs of her shawl so closely…
On the dogpile
It’s been a while since I posted about something Serious pertaining to the knitting industry, but I’m going to brave the waters and throw something out there for y’all to think about. You don’t have to agree with me, but I think this is a topic that would benefit all of us to consider. I want to be crystal clear…
When did this happen? (GIVEAWAY)
This month I am celebrating my 8th anniversary as a blogger. Yep, I went back and checked, and my blog posts started to appear (on my prior site) right around this time in 2005. When I first dipped a toe into the blogging waters, I only knew that I liked to knit and I liked to write. I had a…
No-Bull (Belated) Book Review: Just Like Me Knits by Brandy Fortune
Knitting for kids is such a pleasure, and yet can be challenging, too, once the kids are old enough to express preferences and opinions about what they wear. (Little Miss went through a phase where all she wanted to wear were dresses, preferably hot pink, and now will barely deign to put on a skirt — and is rather sick…