View from my room at the Hampton Inn at 8:30. I swam this morning, I feel good and it’s sunny – beautiful day! Yesterday I taught two classes at Stitches & Scones and was lucky enough to have lunch again at Kelties (same exact thing, I have NO food imagination!) and it was a wonderful…
Rest is Good
It was a very short drive back to the Hampton Inn, I checked in and walked over to Max & Erma’s for a burger and a beer, and now I’m catching up on emails and watching the most heartwrenching documentary on Daniel Pearl. Oh, lord, what a terrifying thing – what madness is done in…
Why Are These Children Smiling?
Aunt Jan sent us a Google Video link, and it was so funny that the kids laughed and laughed! It’s a poodle playing volleyball – the doggie looks a lot like Atticus did when he was more puppyish. I miss the kids. Sometimes when I travel it just grips me so hard – I miss…
Love The Sentiment…
but it’s still copyright infringement… I can appreciate the exitement this knitter feels, her desire to share something she’s enjoyed, but this act of niceness is also a pretty straightforward infrigement on the copyright of one of my patterns. My best seller. Damn. If you find yourself hankering to upload someone’s pattern and ‘share’ it…
Another Day of Driving
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Life in New Jersey, originally uploaded by modeknit. I traveled up to The Yarn Barn in CT today for a very nice class of very nice (and accomplished!) women. We worked on swatches for…
Knitters Halloween
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Cat on the Spiderweb Sign, originally uploaded by modeknit. All up and down our street the fashion has become to put up a big spiderweb off the house, made with twine and usually with…
Mixing It Up
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lornas Laces Cable Swatch, originally uploaded by modeknit. I’ve been going through a blending phase with my yarns. The non-spinners answer to the siren song of creating fiber. Blended here are some Lorna’s Laces…
Folk Style Kaftan Detail
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Folk Style Kaftan Detail, originally uploaded by modeknit. This is a little glimpse of a Kaftan (no not one of those 70’s mumus) I did for Mags Kandis’ book, Folk Style (part of the…
Rhapsody on a Plane
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Rapsody on a Plane, originally uploaded by modeknit. Just to prove to myself, if to no one else, that I am knitting a bit, here’s some scarf that I worked on coming back from…
Piker!
I just listened to Marie Irshad’s Knit Cast (obviously I’m enjoying my ipod – it is heavenly – and I’m catching up on so many podcasts that I’d missed before…), the Shannon Okey episode, and I’m feeling like a piker! Wow – what a busy woman she is! I thought I was busy, but I’m…