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,…
Voyage to alien territory
I never thought that, at 48 years of age, I’d go to my first Comic Con. (For those of you who have never heard of it, Comic Con is a convention devoted to all sorts of pop culture, from comic books to superheroes to tv shows and more). And little did I think that I would go in costume. Along…
No-Bull Book Review: Scottish Knits, by Martin Storey
I have started and been interrupted from finishing this book review for, literally, months. But my competitive spirit runs high, and so when Lorna’s Laces left a comment on my blog yesterday, sympathizing with my backlog of book reviews and asking if I wanted to race, well, it’s on! Just the kick in the pants I needed to get a…
And another month whooshes by…
I do get a little mystified when I peek at my blog and realize that nearly a month has gone by since my last post. May has been a nice month for me, since for the first time in a long time I had no overnight trips scheduled. While I love my fiber-related travel, it can be exhausting, and right…