Last year I wrote a series of emails to start the new year, encouraging people to make for 20 minutes for 20 days. This year I decided to add a day a turn it into an ebook: the 20/21 Creativity Jumpstart. While of course the beginning of a new year …
Was this supposed to be the year you finally learned to sew, finished knitting that blanket, or took the time to write poetry every week? How are those creative goals coming along? Creativity is so important for our mental health and, frankly, just for being human. Having creative goals ensures …
I’ve not been talking a lot about it, but I have a new book coming out April 1. It’s called Colorwork Knitting, and it features five different color knitting techniques — using self-striping yarn, making your own stripes, slip-stitch knitting, stranded knitting and intarsia — on five different kinds of …
A long-ago colleague of mine, fiction writer Lori Ericson, contacted me recently and asked me if I wanted to be part of a blog tour on different writers’ processes. I said sure, not really thinking about what it would mean to share how I work, because it’s a little crazy. …
