Gentle(wo)men, start your TV’s
See this here messenger bag? I’ll be knitting it on Knitty Gritty. The episode I taped last December will air on HGTV on July 16, 7:00am ET/PT. This time next week I’ll be cringing in front of the TV....
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Hey, there, new readers! Did you come here after seeing the episode of Knitty Gritty? Thanks for coming by, make yourself comfortable and poke around all you like. If we ever meet person, I don’t...
View ArticleBrancusi’s Brother
So, here are the ill-matched fruits of my labor. There wasn’t quite enough yarn for the second Brancusi sock, hence the scraps of my Sock Wars sock. Therefore, I’m withdrawing my design from the sock...
View ArticleBran____ 2.0
Just finished grafting the toe and weaving in the ends of the first Brancusi 2.0 sock. Sadly, I don’t have a picture to share with you, so you just have to trust me. Halfway there, hence the post...
View ArticleWhaddahyaknow, Joe?
Just noticed that my messenger bag pattern from Knitty Gritty was link-checked on Lime N Violet’s Daily Chum which was then picked up by CRAFT magazine’s blog. Thanks, Yarngeek and Jenny Ryan! Has it...
View ArticleSock Summit 2009
Phew! I can finally say this now: I’ll be teaching at Sock Summit in Portland, OR, August 6-9, 2009. I kept quiet ever since I got the call from Stephanie. You’d think a harlot would do anything you...
View ArticleWrite now
Ever since high school, I’ve been a fan of fountain pens. I like their quality of line, expressive nature and the importance they impart into the words they write. Taking notes in real ink made me pay...
View Articledo your job
Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity (video from ted.com) . Thanks to Wendy for sharing (not one of the knitting Wendys). ¡Ole!
View Article100 Acts of Sewing
Words cannot begin to describe how amazing and inspiring it’s been to watch my pal Sonya create one hundred dresses over the past year. When I finally get behind a sewing machine again, I will have...
View ArticleLogo-gical
I haven’t really updated the look of this site much since I launched the domain. Tweaked the words in the sidebar, here and there, but that’s it. Back in 2009, while watching a documentary about the...
View ArticleSeth Godin, Backwards
From May’s New York Creative Mornings talk: (if you have twenty minutes to spare for inspiration.) Bits that resonate with me: You don’t get tomorrow over again, you don’t get next week over again—one...
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