Knitting Millinery is BACK and it’s BETTER THAN EVER! I revised it, updated all the charts (they’re legible!) and added new photographs. I metric-ed all the measurements and clarified some shaping questions. And the book ended up a bit shorter (huh?) but that’s dandy! When I first created Knitted Millinery it was in a rush…
Category: Current Projects
The Process
The times that I sit and swatch feel like I’m being lazy and not working. I enjoy these days, I love the swatching, and I can’t help but feel a little guilty that I’m having so much fun. Yesterday I re-knit one swatch over 10 times (in various yarns) but another swatch just popped out in 20 minutes, fully formed.
Furiously Working
If I want forgiveness and redemption, then I have to be prepared to give at least that much. Even if someone hasn’t asked (or doesn’t really care) whether I ‘forgive’ them, it’s healthier for me to move to a kinder place and just assume the best.
Well, Let’s Hope So!
Friday, February 4, 2011 By Rick Levine Virgo (Aug 23 – Sep 22) You are motivated to get a lot done at work today with the Sun-Mars conjunction activating your 6th House of Employment. The cluster of planets in futuristic Aquarius encourages you to set pragmatism aside and take a risk for what you want….
Cooling Down
I may be the only human being in Minnesota who’s too hot today. I’ve been sitting all day with the window open, I swear if I went outside I’d melt the new snow off the sidewalk. I have fever, baby! This is something that comes on sometimes, now I understand that it’s part of the…
Missing TNNA
Imperial Ranch Poncho 3 Originally uploaded by modeknit I’m not at TNNA (The National Needlework Association semi-annual convention), but I have a few designs there on display. Here’s one of my recent favorites, worked up for Imperial Ranch Yarns. I’d contacted them for some yarn to use for a piece in History on Two Needles,…
Friday, January 7, 2011 By Rick Levine Virgo (Aug 23 – Sep 22) You’ve been riding a wave of creative energy that continues to be difficult to manifest. It’s as if your productive ideas are blocked by circumstances that are beyond your control. But don’t give up. Instead of logically trying to analyze all your…
A Holiday Whine – Fa la wa wa wa
I’ve not been blogging as I should because I know that I’d just sound like a high pitched whine – Wa, wa, wa – and we all know that THAT’S no fun. Well, it’s fun for me, but not for you. Wa, wa, wa.
Working on that Positive Attitude thing…
So I held a pity party for myself yesterday and drowned my sorrows in a piece (O N E small piece) of poppy seed lemon cake at Caribou Coffee, and I’ve been suffering with a serious flare up ever since.
Fear Not…
But thank you for the emails and comments asking if a password is now required – it’s not! I’ve been blogging more slowly and infrequently than in the past because I have a lot of projects I’m working on (design projects, book projects) and that’s kept me busy.