Report
Oh yeah, I sort of bought some yarn while we were away. Not too much (the soul of restraint, that's me), but a bit. First up, Tosh DK by Madelinetosh in the color Stargazing (which doesn't show on their website, not sure if it's a one off or discontinued). It's the brightest non-orange yarn in my stash and I will never in a million years be able to get an accurate reflection of the color of this yarn. Let's just say it's blue enough it pretty much vibrates. It is totally outside my normal gray with hints of green and [...]
More Indiscretion
When last I left you, it was Friday morning. I'd visited A Verb for Keeping Warm the night before and just sort of casually mentioned that I was about to head out to another yarn shop later that morning. The second yarn shop was ImagiKnit, and it was a delight. Now, first things first, they had a wee stack of Curls sitting out on the table. And I know it's horribly tacky to admit it, but I confess that does always make me awfully happy to see that in a yarn shop. I secretly suspect anyone else who writes books [...]
Indiscretion
You'll have to forgive me. I had all these grand plans. While I was away I was going to take advantage of the pretty scenery to take oodles of sock pictures (seriously, I packed along socks in my carry on for maximum sock safety). I was going to stumble across charming fiber animals (when I had my camera handy). I was going to encounter nifty knitting-related stuff (also with camera to hand) in unexpected contexts and document it for you all. But I haven't. Instead I've spent a fairly astonishing amount of time finding awesome restaurants, reading, just possibly napping, [...]
TNNA
Well that was fun! I'm back from TNNA. (It's the big industry trade show. Yarn companies, tool & notion makers, and publishers go there to show off what they do, and yarn stores go there to see what they might like to carry in their shops.) It was a blast. I finally feel like I'm getting the hang of this (it apparently took me until my fourth show to feel comfortable at it, but I got there, so I'm calling it a win). I did a few book signings, caught up with lots of lovely people I only get to [...]
Commerce
Last time we chatted about the critters of the Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival. This time, let's talk about the loot. Now, I'm normally rather restrained at these events. I just don't go through much yarn (and when I do knit something, I like it to be in a yarn I can use for a pattern, and that imposes a whole new set of constraints on my shopping). But I did find a few goodies. The first is some long, wooden dpns. I used to think I didn't care for wooden dpns (and I still don't like them at small [...]
Critters
You know that thing where life sort of conspires against you and you decide you Simply Must Leave For A Bit. There's really not any choice about it, you just need to Flee. Yeah, well, that's been going on. So last weekend, I fled. I went down to the Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival with a friend for a bit of relaxation and distraction (plus a bit of scheming...because really you need some scheming in any good weekend). As often happens at these things, there were critters. Critters are quite good at providing distractions. There were live silk worms (which [...]
Decisions, Decisions
So, I've got finished knitting, I've got finished patterns, all I need is photos. Luckily, I've also managed to flee my snowy, freezing home and come somewhere a bit warmer (not warm mind you, I'm still walking around bundled up in woolies, just warmer). Looks a bit like this. Even luckier, I actually managed to bring the knitting in need of a photo shoot (on the theory that it might be easier to find a spot to take pictures here than at home). I intend to press my willing victim into service and get two patterns worth of pictures while [...]
Conflict
What I want to do is tell you all about our trip and the lovely things we did while we were gone. What I should do is tell you all about the new book that's going up for preorder on Friday. So let's strike a compromise. I'll share three pictures from the trip (because three pictures of someone else's vacation is all anyone should be asked to tolerate), and then we'll talk about the book tomorrow. Sound fair? We spent an unreasonable amount of time watching the sky do this. We spent even more time climbing all over these rocks [...]
Loot
I went to Rhinebeck and didn't buy yarn. I know this sounds a bit odd, but I get rather frazzled when I find myself somewhere crowded. I bailed out after less than three hours. I wanted very badly to be elsewhere, so we left. Luckily, we were up in Maine after Rhinebeck, and Maine seems to be exceptionally well supplied with yarn stores. I visited quite a few of them. Of course we went into Portland, which means of course we went to KnitWit, which means of course I bought yarn from Quince & Co. Rather a lot of yarn actually. [...]
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