Well, this just takes the cake. After suffering through a HOT weekend, stealing every hour to finish my submissions on time (see below), putting off taking my kids to the pool on this STEAMIEST of hot days here in NJ and rushing my husband off to the post office with MINUTES to spare to send…
Well, I just wrote a long, lovely musing on free lance knit design and the small money that is there – but it’s disappeared (hmmmm – how odd…) The main gist was that this past weekend G worked afternoons/evenings on Fri, Sat & Sun – it was hot, hot, hot and the kids were just…
A slower day today, but a busy day! I developed a SPLITTING headache whilst working up 6 (count ’em SIX) different application pages to teach at a major knitting expo – one page per course proposal. Cross your fingers for me, I love the teaching and I’d like to make it a full time career…
Today was a great day – beautiful weather, beautiful day! After teaching my middle school drama class I took a break with some knitting buddies in Maplewood, then on to Brooklyn to visit a shop, Red Lipstick that I had read about on the internet. Let me tell you, this shop is fabulous. Tiny, yes,…
Day 2 of being stuck to my seat – arrrgh! But at least I have 14 good sketches/swatches with accompanying schematics and stitch charts to show for my work. I think it’s a function of my recent recovery, and also of growing a bit older, but I’m just not as fast as I used to…
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I’ve spent 2 hours stuck to a wooden chair in my HOT office charting lace patterns so my combined knitting brain can decipher them. Oh, well – worse things could happen. Now I have to get my act together and get just a few more swatches finished (– just — one — more –) and…