Archive for July, 2008
Monday, July 28th, 2008
Hurray! Registration is now open for both Yarn School and Felt School!
If you haven’t checked out The Harveyville Project yet, you really should, and if you haven’t been to Yarn School or Felt School — what are you waiting for, my friend? This is going to be the best year yet, especially if you stay [...]
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
If you’re in Northeast Ohio this weekend or within a reasonable driving distance, you should come on down to the Ingenuity Festival! I’ve organized the first-ever summer edition of Bazaar Bizarre Cleveland. We’ll be near All Go Signs‘ stage, so come to shop and stay for the shows, it’s going to be fabulous. Photos to [...]
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Many, if not all of you, know that I have some serious Joss Whedon fangirl issues. If you’d forgotten this, go back and listen to the very first episode of the Knitgrrl show (with Nikol Lohr, who recently knitted a Jayne hat for her Flip and who helped me introduce everyone at Felt School to [...]
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
This is cool. Remember my review of Robin Melanson’s fantastic book Knitting New Mittens and Gloves? (buy it now!) STC is giving away the pattern for her Alternating Current gloves for free. They ask that if you download the pattern you also knit a pair for someone in need. What a great idea!
I’m knitting my [...]
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
My favorite shot. Modeled by the lovely Gina DeSantis.
Front view, now with 100% more product placement! (Hi, Lexie!)
The Tai Shan hoodie pattern from How to Knit in the Woods has been posted as a free download — here (PDF link) — and on the knitgrrl.com errata page. Why? An alert reader pointed out a funky [...]
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Yay! Congrats to Xan on a fantastic piece in the Cleveland Plain Dealer (our hometown paper) — In AlterNation Shannon Okey and Alexandra Underhill share their creative secrets. Scans to come — of course my mother came and raided my newspapers the day this came out!
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
My first day off in forever and what do I do? Work. Yup. Wrote an article this morning, and am about to clean the house. Meanwhile, I’m thinking about things to knit. This sweater, or the stuff in my Ravelry queue… something, anything to get me past my current brain-stoppage on the jack in the [...]
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
My boyfriend is so awesome it hurts. El Gorgo issue #1 is done! Mike (his best friend) writes it, and Tamas draws and letters everything.
I could tell you how much I love El Gorgo, but you wouldn’t even believe me, so I am holding a contest. El Gorgo-rumi! I want to see El Gorgo [...]
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