Author: Annie

If I could have more kids I’d name the next one Prednisone. I’m feeling better – breathing clearer than I’ve breathed in months. Since I chat about my asthma (at least I do a lot lately – it’s been a large part of my traveling and teaching life) I feel I do owe it to…

I’m loving the smell from my kitchen – oy, it’s a delicious thing right now! I love Thanksgiving. I do enjoy cooking, but I don’t do it much because, well, I have a husband who’s really good at it and I’m usually just gearing up into the pattern writing frenzy in the late afternoon/evening. How’s…

It’s a chilly, cold, rainy day here in the Northeast – November. When I left on Friday the trees in front of my house still had leaves, when I arrived home on Sunday they’d all fallen down. Driving around yesterday I saw one tree full of bright red leaves and wanted to get out of…

I’m taking the day off after a very busy weekend of teaching and driving! I just got back from the doctor, my lungs are in need of some prednisone and rest so I’ll be sleeping, reading, and maybe even knitting a little bit this evening – but overall I’ll be resting. Damn! I didn’t get…

Today I’m sending the first 10 finished projects to Lark for Men Who Knit and I’m very excited! Other projects are coming in, I feel that I have a handle on the progress of everything in the book and Drew is doing an AMAZING job compiling profiles of knittin’ men (the range and variety of…

In one of the lists I belong to somone had asked about design education (specifically, what was each person on the lists’ own formal education in design.) In the course of my answer I pointed them to the book I’d learned flat patterning from – Pattern Making by the Flat Pattern Method (8th Edition) by…

ñ Are you finished? ñ No, Scots & French, actually… And Dutch. It doesn’t take a lot to make me laugh. The sweaters are arriving thick and fast, which means a good amount of tweaking is creeping up on me quicker than I’d realized. This week the kids have school EVERY DAY, which is a…

Today is one of those incredibly windy November days that are designed to blow every last remaining leaf off of the branches and ruin good, hardworking rakers labors. I haven’t raked, yet, so I’m enjoying the force of the wind! We all went for a walk today – me, the kids and Atticus – windy,…

The whole concept of a dance card has been disturbing to me since I watched Meet Me In St. Louis with my mom on the Bill Kennedy movie (channel 50) out of Detroit one Sunday afternoon. I love the movie – it’s one of my all time favorites – but it was hard for me…

I love the Fall – it’s my favorite season! And I love driving. Vrooom. I miss my mother when I drive, because she was such a good driver. Driving in the Fall is amazing – going away and teaching for the weekend is almost like a mini holiday. Except that I’m working. Friday I taught…