Just about this time last year I wrote a post about Interweave Knit’s proposal to designers to sell our patterns on their online website. The designer’s cut? 10%. I found this absurd, but I also had found IK to be an amazingly wonderful magazine to work with, so I wrote about it at my blog….
I'd like to teach in the UK next year
So I’m throwing it out, and maybe the wind will blow something back. Burn, baby, burn!
School Me
I just signed up for a day long class at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis on Bohus Knitting, taught by Susanna Hanson. I’m SO excited – I don’t get to take as many classes as I’d like – and this will be not only fun, but a chance to expand my teaching skills by…
Mortal
After 9/11 I found myself pondering death all of the time – death, dying, the end, finis, mort. You know it’s serious when I start pondering en Francaise. At the time I was reading a wonderful book, The Mummies of Urumchi, which somehow calmed the ‘death fear’ that had crept into every pore. It was…
SDT
SDT = So Damned Tired. The weekend was lovely – wonderful – and I hope it was restful for the students! I know I had a good time, but I was also feeling very responsible for folks, a responsibility I wasn’t entirely prepared to take on as I drove over to Spicer. On the way…
Good and Bad Days
It’s been SUCH a busy week – so much has happened since I last wrote – But it’s been a hard week because I’m finding myself getting lost in my recent sorrows more than I’d thought I would. I think that just comes with the territory. Jan’s recent passing seems to act like a magnifying…
Ghosts
Supposedly there are ghosts at the Slater Mill, but I didn’t see any. I’d kind of like to see one (yeah, right, that’s my story NOW, ask me after I’ve had an encounter with an envoy from the other world) but I was too tired after the event this evening to take the Ghost Tour….
Unsettled
I feel oddly adrift, maybe it’s the overcast weather (which ironically makes the foliage here in New England even more spectacular and brilliant!) or maybe it’s just staying in a different hotel every night, but I feel not quite myself. I miss Gerry and the kids, and I really miss St. Paul! Boston was lovely…
Bah-ston
I’m here in Boston, my flight got in this afternoon and I’m staying in the area in preparation for my classes tomorrow. I’m very excited about them – a new working model for me – sponsoring and covering all the expenses of the class myself, but keeping the $$, too. On this trip it’s working…
Two Four Who Should Be Here
Up to the minute election results! (so much for no politics on a knitting blog…) Gerry and I voted already, we’re watching Obama vote right now in Chicago (no wonder the lines are long, what is he – moving in?) But I cannot get two people out of my mind who should be here. You…