Author: Annie

Discretion. I don’t think of that as a hallmark of a long drive, but tonight – for me – it was. I left Stitch DC right around 5:00 pm today and found myself in heavy, heavy traffic. Beautiful, last warm weekend, lets-get-out-of-DC on a Friday kind of traffic. It didn’t take long for me to…

As I pulled into my friend’s driveway this evening my headlights flashed on a fox running across the yard, and my gas gauge binged “empty!” No connection, and the fox was very lovely. I’m very lucky in my friends. More than lucky, I’m blessed. And you know I don’t use that word lightly. I feel…

Yesterday I took a ME day. First, I had an amazing breakfast of oatmeal and hash. Then went for a nice, long bike ride in the CT countryside. Then I knitted a bit. Then I drove around. Then I had lunch.Then I came back to the hotel and rode my bike a bit more. Then…

The hard part about traveling (aside from missing Gerry, the kids and Atticus & Shiloh) is the iffy wifi and internet connection. I’ve been staying with friends, family, friends of family and family of friends, and I’ve been having a wonderful time! Visiting my alma mater, Denison University, was a lovely little side trip –…

A Vogue Designer earns 6% per pattern sold on their website. (6% is Vogue’s idea of “10% net”, which is the figure they dictated in a mass mailing to Designers earlier this year.) By comparison, Interweave pays between 20-50% (which would be $1.80 – $3 on a pattern which retails for $6) Interweave pays their…

I’ve pretty much decided to drive out to Rhinebeck for my teaching engagement. There are several reasons for this craziness: 1) It’s cheaper. Flying, although not quite as expensive as it was a year ago, is still pricey. But even more pricey are the rental car fees. Sometimes I can find a real bargain, but…

The winners and runners up for 1,000 Fabulous Knit Hats have been selected, they are listed at the website, 1000fabulousknithats.com THANK YOU to everyone who submitted an original hat for consideration in the Top 10! Notifications of acceptance of the other 990 hats to be included in the book will be sent out by the…

I’m in Paypal / iTunes hell. On my birthday someone made over $160 of unauthorized charges by purchasing music on itunes. It was paid using my paypal account, which I use as the default payment for iTunes. Apparently there’s a well known glitch in iTunes security that allows hackers to use someone’s birth day to…

Obviously I blog because I’m a knit designer and teacher, and I like to keep folks up to date on what I’m doing and where I’m teaching. But I blog about a LOT of other things, too. My last post was a case in point. I received a lot of emails from folks who didn’t…