Birthday Laze
I am hard at work on the traditional birthday laze fest. I am wearing warm wooly socks, eating tasty food, getting to know a new board game, and generally hibernating all tucked up at home with The Boy (which is exactly how I like to spend the day). As is also traditional, I'm having a wee birthday sale. Now through December 26, 11:59pm eastern time, buy one pattern get one free (everything except the books). To take advantage: 1) Visit my ravelry store find 2 patterns you like, and put them in your ravelry cart (you have to use the [...]
Next
In between the website upgrades, the movies, and the ice cream making, the weekend saw a bit of time for some actual knitting. These are the newest sock on the needles and they will be for The Boy (he certainly deserves them after all the computer time he clocked over the last few days). The yarn is String Theory Merino DK in the color Carina. The Boy picked it out when we visited String Theory in October. The color is lovely, and just the tiniest bit odd. It looks like the yarn itself is yellow and in some spots it's [...]
Thanksgiving Sale (yes, even the books)
I'm continuing my acts of consumer disobedience and declining to go anywhere near anything to do with black Friday. I'll be tucked up at home playing board games, making ice cream, and quite possibly knitting. I hope whatever you're doing, you like it as much as I like being home in my pjs. But it's become something of a tradition to do a Thanksgiving sale around here, and I like traditions, so I'm doing it again. From now through the end of the day on Monday, all my downloadable patterns are on sale. You can get 10% off 1 item, [...]
Sidetracked
The sock, it is not yet finished. It was a productive weekend in lot of other ways though (if by productive you'll take 'relaxing' and 'enjoyable'), so I'll pretend I don't mind the delay. This is, of course, a filthy lie and the delay is actually driving me bonkers. But until we get that time machine sorted out, it will have to do. But, I do have the ability to start Monday out on a good note for at least two people, Brenda (goodstuff on rav) and Anna have won the Handmaiden from last week. And, as a little goody [...]
More or Less a Sock
The weekend saw some serious sock progress. The lonely sock now has about 2/3 of a mate (just down past the gusset). I feel there should be some sort of tasteless joke in there, but I'll leave filling it in as an exercise for the reader. For today, I'll take the opportunity to let Lauren of Ruthie Pearl and Sue of Adlerwood Quilts know they've won the Plucky Knitter yarn (I've emailed both to ask for a mailing address). Now, if I could, I'd send yarn to all of you. I can't, but I can give you patterns. So, from [...]
Updates
Sooooo, anyone wanna see what's sitting on my shelf? That looks suspiciously like a book. A real live physical book. The kind with ink and pages. The kind you can pick up and hold and sniff and give yourself a papercut with. And guys...it's likely immodest to say this, but wow does it look good. I love the e version too, but somehow the paper one always wins first place in my heart. So, what does this mean for the folks who have ordered the book? Well, the ones on the shelf are the author advance copies (the printer sends [...]
Summer Sale
Somehow it slipped my mind that it's a holiday weekend and the unofficial start of summer and all those lovely things. Just to ward off any of that silly 'the summer isn't for knitting' nonsense, I thought I'd have a little sale to encourage you to keep right on knitting, despite the thermometer! So from now till the end of the day (eastern time) on May 31, all the individual patterns and small collections (so everything except the two big books) are 40% off. All you have to do is go here, find what you like, and add it to [...]
Thanksgiving Sale
All of my Thanksgiving plans are set. I've secured a new game (Mansions of Madness, let's hear it for games with 20+ page rulebooks), we've found a way to consume the requisite Thanksgiving pizza, and we're finishing up the evening with dessert with friends. Should be a lovely day. Tomorrow, I will be staying inside and refusing to shop. We'll call it an act of consumer disobedience. The mall and I don't get along under the best of circumstances, and it's totally banned during November and December. But on the off chance you're the sort who likes to shop, I'm [...]
Getting Organized
Some time this weekend (when depends entirely on when I wake up), I'm going to go through and change the prices on some of my patterns. The goal here is to make the prices consistent across types of patterns. When I'm done, all sock patterns will be the same price, and all the other sorts of patterns and pattern sets will be more consistently priced. It means the prices of some patterns will be going up (not a lot...most of the changes will be less than a dollar). But I wanted to give everyone a heads up so no one [...]
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