As you all must be aware by now, I have a book that just came out. Now, I am a relatively rational person. I understand that publishing a book is a big deal. Someone who has never even met me in person liked my online presence enough to ask me to submit a proposal, worked […]
Things I Love: UncommonGoods (Plus a Design Contest)
It’s been a long time since I did a Things I Love post, but I wanted to let you in on my gift-giving secret. I love UncommonGoods. If you haven’t seen it, you must go check it out. It’s a website and they also have a catalog (which I happened to get in the mail […]
Getting Out of a Creative Slump: Make Something Easy, with a Twist
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I’m not feeling very creative and what I can do to get through this period of time where I’m not that interested in making things. It’s something we all go through as creative people (if you don’t, you’re probably not stretching yourself enough) so it seems useful […]
Thoughts on a New Book
If you follow me anywhere on social media, you probably already know that my book, Quick & Easy Baby Knits has been released out into the world. (And if you don’t follow me on social media, go click on some of those buttons at the top right, why don’t you?) This came as a bit […]
No Time to Create {One Little Word}
It actually doesn’t come as that much of a surprise to me that I’ve kind of washed out of One Little Word. It’s hard for me to focus on anything — even when it’s just one little thing — for a whole month, let alone a whole year. I think I did really well for […]
Notes from the Road – Yarn Harlot Edition
I had such an amazing fun weekend at Mount Magazine with 18 other knitters and the Yarn Harlot, aka Stephanie Pearl-McPhee. For the uninitiated, Stephanie is probably the only knitting humor writer to come out of Canada, and because you can’t quite make a living writing knitting humor, she also teaches and speaks about knitting. […]
And Then, Things Got Real
I’m having a lot of trouble focusing today (which is actually yesterday, as you read this, but I’m sure it’s still true). For one thing, the major backyard renovation that’s been going on for a month (except for those two weeks in the middle when it wasn’t going) has gone into overdrive with the pouring […]