These are the things that happened last weekend: 1. I got to leave a city full of rain and arrive in a city full of balmy sunshine and palm trees. (Well, the palm trees aren’t balmy, but you know what I mean.) 2. I got to see my people at VK Live: Pasadena… and have margaritas on the patio…. 3.…
In memoriam: The Knitting Curmudgeon
When I first started reading knitting blogs, even before I had my own, I stumbled across the Knitting Curmudgeon. She was acerbic, she was funny as hell, she suffered no fools gladly, and she had absolutely no patience with hypocrisy. She also knew a hell of a lot about knitting. She had a huge heart and a barbed tongue. People…
Two chances to win….
Two wonderful friends are giving away copies of Knitting Ephemera: A Compendium of Articles, Useful and Otherwise, for the Edification and Amusement of the Handknitter…. Check out Patty Lyons’ blog, with a Q&A about the book here. Then listen to my interview with Kathy Elkins here.
It’s here!
It was a labor of love that I started in fall of 2012. It was carefully nurtured, and revised, and tweaked, and edited by the fabulous folks at Sixth and Spring Books, and then a wonderful book designer created exactly the perfect design for it. And now, nearly four years later, it’s on sale at your LYS or local bookshop…
A fresh start
One thing especially nice about New Year’s Day is that it sets us up for fresh beginnings. New calendar, new year, new start — and really, after a year like 2015, there’s something fabulous about feeling like you can put the bad things behind you and start fresh. I’m happy to look forward to some of the wonderful things that…
The next chapter
As Ferris Bueller so famously said, “Life moves fast….” Indeed, in the last few months, life’s been moving so fast I was afraid I’d end up as roadkill on the shoulder of the highway. But one thing I’ve learned about myself is that I am a survivor. I’m still here, and though things in my life are changing, some in…
Popa-palooza
Here in the Philly area, we’ve been hearing about the Papal visit for a while now. I happen to live in a neighborhood near one of the SEPTA train stations that will be used to move vast numbers of people into and out of Center City, so we’re hunkering down for a crazy weekend with road closures, traffic, and other…
Limited time: The Official Boris Striping Colorway
It’s been a rather difficult summer for me on the personal front, and there have been moments when if I wasn’t able to bury my face in the snorgly fur of Boris, I don’t know what I would have done. So when I was puttering around the dyepots the other day (as one does), I had an impulse: to create…
Old and new
I’ve been knitting socks for a long time, and this summer, I had to face a difficult but unavoidable truth: some of my handknit socks were falling to pieces. People often act amazed that I would knit myself a pair of socks (and how many times have you heard someone say the cliche that incites equal parts of rage and…