For the sewer:
Anna Maria Horner’s new book Seams To Me: 24 New Reasons to Love Sewing is a revelation — bright, colorful, spiral-bound to lay flat on the table as you work. Not an ordinary stitchery book in the least. From introductory info on sewing machines and useful-but-often-overlooked sewing-related items such as pressing hams and [...]
Tara at Blonde Chicken Boutique posted the coolest link to Twitter just now: Experimental Recycled Sleeve Dyeing with Food Dyes. Love this! love the end results.
Also on the knitting tip — I bought the greatest hat from Cosy this weekend. I will have to get a shot of me wearing it, it is brilliant! And [...]
So apart from some truly strange cop-on-bingo-player violence in the parking lot Saturday night (or, as I phrased it then: “come for the crafts! stay for the police brutality!”, and some car towing because we were so popular and so packed that people started parking places they shouldn’t have…….. the show went really well. Bazaar [...]
…but Stephen Colbert made it even funnier: remember when the knitter got busted coming back over the Canadian border for having sketches in her notebook of a crocheted car cozy? If no, check this out.
Since I’ve been busy enabling half my friends on Twitter to run out and buy Kindles, I thought I’d post a link you can use and pass along if you want to get one, too:
http://tinyurl.com/kindleknitgrrl
You won’t get it in time for Christmas (see? I told you to order one before now!) but, per Amazon:
Due to [...]
1. Write a pattern while in the throes of a fading migraine.
2. Ditto.
I started to write up Rivulet and realized the numbers were dancing on the screen in a very swirly, yet-not-amusing way. This was on Friday. I went back today to read it over again and said to myself oh, this is not making [...]
(wait, is it weird to congratulate someone who’s leaving a job? in this case, I don’t think so…read on…the photo at left is from our 2006 book tour together)
My friend and very dear colleague Kim Werker has stepped down from her editorship at Interweave Crochet. Interweave has acquired the crochet site she founded, CrochetMe as [...]
In design, less is more…at least I think so. And now that we’re officially in a recession, at least according to what I’ve been reading, it’s time to have a look at how we shop and spend in relation to our knitting. My friend Margot has a really interesting post up at the moment.
As [...]
It went up today!
(and now I am thinking about chocolates from Lilly…mmm)
This made my day and it isn’t even noon yet. I got an email from my childhood neighbor and friend, who now lives all the way across the country. Identifying details [snip]’ped so no one gets embarrassed except me:
so i was at my local yarn store, [snip], owned by this funny dude [snip]. he always [...]