Book Yarn, Part III
KCC3 is debuting soon (next month!) and I want to take a bit of time during the lead up to show off all the delightful yarns I’ve used in the book. So without further ado, yarn. These beautiful yarns are from String Theory. I may just have a little String Theory addiction problem obsession. I've visited (twice). My last two socks were made with String Theory. Um, and the socks on the cover of Ne'er-Do-Well Knits. Oh yeah, and some socks and a hat from KCC2. Oh and there may well be another secret project I can't tell you about [...]
Tease
Just in case you thought I was making it up... And just for the record, oh man it's pretty.
Book Yarn, Part II
KCC3 is debuting soon (next month!) and I want to take a bit of time during the lead up to show off all the delightful yarns I've used in the book. So without further ado, yarn. These are two of the many amazing yarns available from Plucky Knitter. My love affair with Plucky yarns is well-documented and long-lasting. So far, I've indulged in some delightful boy socks, some downright girly socks, a cuff, a hat, and of course the cover socks from the last book! On the left, you've got Plucky Feet in Spice of Life. This is one of [...]
Book Yarn, Part I
Someone very graciously pointed out to me I've been remiss in telling you about the yarns I used in the upcoming KCC3. This is a situation I need to remedy as soon as possible, especially since we're only about a month out from the book's debut! So, without further delay, book yarns. These delightful specimens are from the lovely folks at Quince & Co. I first fell in love with Quince & Co yarns when we went to Maine in 2012. I'd seen it online before that, but it was extra delightful in person. I knew I wanted to work [...]
Supplies
My porch looks like this (there's more around the corner). It looks like that because some time in the next few weeks, I will be getting approximately one gazillion copies of KCC3. And then, with any luck, I will be putting those copies into these envelopes and sending them out to you. In the meantime, I think I owe my UPS driver some cookies or something to make up for getting all this delivered in the pouring rain.
Soon…
So this happened. That's all the pieces and parts of KCC3, fresh from the printer. When you get a book made, you get lots and lots of packages with various iterations of the project. They all have jobs to do (check the color, make sure the pages are in the right order, make sure nothing goofy has happened). They're all fun to get, but the closer you get to the real thing, the better they are. This one's pretty darn close. All the pieces are there, they just need to be glued together and have the spiffy coating put on [...]
Rainbow
Aww, you guys are very kind. Thank you for all the lovely comments on the anniversary post. I still can't quite believe I get to do this for my real live grownup job. Now that KCC3 is just about to head off to the printer, I find myself wanting to do something fun to commemorate the series being finished. I have all the little yarn samples I used for the Book Yarn posts (which I will be writing for KCC3 soon, don't worry, I haven't forgotten) so I got them all out and started playing with them. There may well [...]
Five years in
Five years ago, with very little in the way of a proper plan, I flung this website up as a place to host my first attempt at a sock pattern. One year later, I had a book contract. A year after that, Silk Road Socks was out. A year after that, I'd taken the plunge into self publishing, and KCC1 was off at the printer. A year ago, KCC2 was headed to the printer, and I'd abandoned those silly ideas about being a historian and had settled properly into the idea that this was my job. Today, five years in, [...]
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