Felt School + Silk Road Socks

This past month has been so busy and crazy I can’t even fully put it into words. It’s after midnight,…

Hello, Keene, New Hampshire!

I noticed that the Kids Knitting program at the Keene Public Library in New Hampshire is recommending the Knitgrrl books…

Meet Silke, and Brave New Knits

photo copyright 2010 Jared Flood/Rodale, Inc. Silke (pronounced ZILL-kah) is a cardigan jacket inspired by a former (German, hence pronunciation)…

Praying to the computer gods DOES help!

Good news, bad news. First, the good: my laptop’s motherboard needs to be replaced. For all of you out there…

School starts later…

Due to technical difficulties, namely my computer going boom (that’s the technical description! but seriously…without boring you all to death,…

New classes at Knitgrrl [virtual] studio!

We ran a poll of existing studio members this week and are trying out some new classes and other offerings…

Amazing Japanese illustrations

Via studiomate dearest Arabella, this fabulous link: Portraits of Women by Ikenaga Yasunari. She told me to look at the…

Deeply flawed expectations

I’ve got books on the brain. (First of all, though, go check out this lovely interview Tara did with me,…

Fall collection + books + busy

The Fresh Designs books are coming along really nicely — one designer’s even finished her project already and it’s on…

Bursting at the seams with excitement!

I have two things to knit on deadline, two exciting blog book tour stops (Knitty today, Stefanie Japel tomorrow) and…