Interesting article yesterday in Publisher’s Weekly called A Nation of Crafters, on many topics dear to the Knitgrrl heart (such as my new book Alt Fiber, Faythe Levine’s Handmade Nation film + book and more). A few quotes:
Ten Speed Press embraces growing environmental concerns with a September title, Alt Fiber: 25 Projects for Knitting Green [...]
I just got my DVD of Knitting Daily TV, which has started airing on PBS stations everywhere. In case you’re wondering, I’m on Episode 112: Fabulous Felting, from which the photo at left was taken. Quicky segment, demonstrating how to use the needlefelting tool, but it was fun to do. Hi Kim! And I didn’t [...]
The nice thing about teaching the same group of people nearly full time for 6 weeks is that it gave me a lot of time to think during the commute, etc. That Jillian caved and bought a Kindle (which I was able to pet at TNNA) was another thought-provoker, especially when I gave in, too. [...]
First of all, I am losing my mind here. It seems everyone in the universe (ok, ok, my friend Julie and my agent) has a hard copy preview of Alt Fiber in their hot little hands except me! This is worrying. Has the UPS driver stolen the box? (Don’t laugh — the TSA stole copies [...]
AlterNation was mentioned in a lengthy (and interesting) article on AlterNet recently. I particularly enjoyed this quote:
The DIY movement wants you to make stuff. The DIY movement is huge, and sometimes it’s charming and sometimes it’s annoying and it is an anti-mass-production insurrection, a cuddly-soft revolt whose arsenal is crochet hooks, needles and glue guns. [...]
Wow. Wow. And double-wow. Twist Collective is live and you owe it to yourself to check it out. I’ve already ordered four of the patterns myself! The brainchild of the fantabulous Kate Gilbert, who I’ve known for some time, having stocked her patterns in my original, online-only store several years ago, Twist Collective is a [...]