Category Archives: Everything Else
Knitscene and Hannah Fettig
If you haven’t done so already, I highly recommend you go pick up the Fall 2010 issue of Knitscene Magazine.
I was lucky to get the opportunity to interview featured designer Hannah Fettig in this issue. She’s such a cool designer, and she’s a real inspiration when it comes to publishing patterns on the web.
Hannah whipped [...]
“The Office” visits my office!
So, yeah… I know I haven’t posted a lot of knitting on here recently. My bad. I blame a combination of:
Super-secret knitting projects I can’t share
Being really busy in my personal and work life
Leprechauns
I’m preparing a super-special post to tell you about the feature article I wrote in this issue of Knitscene, but first, [...]
Knitscene Easy 2010
I was lucky enough to contribute to the special issue of Knitscene Easy, on newsstands April 13, 2010 (that’s tomorrow, folks!)
I wrote a little article about how to start your own knitblog. How very apropos of me, huh?
Though the issue is targeted to beginning knitters, the patterns are totally adorable and are a far cry [...]
Responding to the Knit-Signal
The Yarn Harlot has thrown up her version of the bat signal: the knit-signal. She’s asking for knitters to come together and help out Haiti.
She asked for knitters to come together and donate money to Doctors Without Borders under the umbrella of Knitters Without Borders.
I wanted to donate some money to the Haiti relief [...]
Goodbye and Hello
There’s lots of knitting going on here, but unfortunately not a lot of pictures to prove it. Blogs are better with pictures, so I’ll try to keep this short.
My good friend Hoang is moving from Los Angeles to Denver this week, so he had a going-away party on Saturday night. He’s been asking me [...]
A Little Yarn Porn*
*Don’t worry – this is SFW.
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hitting up La Knitterie Parisienne in Studio City for the first time. I went with a single purpose: to buy yarn for a baby sweater pattern I’m drafting.
Of course, the moment I walked into the place I felt the urge to splurge. Though it’s [...]
Introducing Knitters for Kiva
I’m proud to introduce Knitters for Kiva, a new group that will hopefully inspire many of you to take part in the exciting and inspirational microfinance revolution.
Learn more about Kiva here.
Here’s the basics: Kiva is an organization that helps people in developing nations acquire short-term microloans. These microloans often go to women and people who [...]
Dress to Impress
Oh, hello! Didn’t see you there. I’ve been busy making marmalade.
And yes, I dress like that whenever I’m in the kitchen as a matter of pride. You believe me, don’t you?
I’ve made two batches already.
It requires a lot of chopping and a lot of patience.
And at the end you kinda think, “I worked [...]
Ravelry to the rescue!
I always forget just how much yarn sleeves use. To me, they’re always an afterthought. They’re just little tubes after all, right? Wrong. They take up a lot of yarn. And you have to make two of them. I was reminded of this as I started knitting sleeve #1 for Starsky this week:
I started [...]
Going green
I haven’t been able to do any knitting in the last 48 hours, but I have been quite the little eco-friendly person.
Last night, I went on a hike to see the Leonid meteor shower. It was pretty chilly out there, so I brought along my entrelac scarf, fake isle hat, and miracle mitts to [...]
