I have lost all of my grip. This morning I jolted awake in a huge panic. Should I be sleeping? Was I missing a plane? What state was I in? What day was it? (The plane one is particularly troubling. The tour moves so fast that if I miss a plane, I miss an event. There’s no time to make it up or get it together. If I sleep too long or screw up time zones or something, the whole thing tanks.) It took me about five minutes of terrorized lying in the dark to work it all out. I am in Utah. It is Saturday. I am going to California, and it is 6:30am. I am not late.
It’s a wonder it only took me 5 minutes to work it out. The trip is zipping right along, so fast that I am scarcely breathing. Thursday was Eugene, Oregon. Eugene holds the honoured place of being the city that I spent the least amount of time in, only 16 hours. This is a real shame because it’s a pretty town. I comfort myself by knowing that I saw at least one really cool thing – a dust devil, (described to me most charmingly by my cab driver as “a very small storm”), drank an excellent beer…
(Mirror pond, a nice local from Oregon)
and that I got to meet the best of Eugene : the knitters.
(Blurry knitters. I swear I am going to flush this camera.)
Books Without Borders hosted the event, the pizza guy from next door did the sound and it was charming all around. Three cheers for Amelia, who handled the hordes with charm and grace. (As you would imagine, Amelia is a book lady who also knows the ways of yarn. It helps.)
Here’s Jen (check out her shop. Cute, cute, cute. Click it just for the baby pictures. They’re enough to make your ovaries cramp.)
Kim and Bonnie. Bonnie was that Lone member of Team Costa Rica in the knitting olympics. She just happened to be passing by.
Jodie (and her patient and handsome muggle Anthony.)
Jodie is the clever knitter behind the Saturday Market Bag.
Irie was there (but she ducked out before I could meet her. She has a wonderful podcast.) Lori came, the Red Hot Knitters came…
(Oregon is apparently just covered in knitters.) there was Crissy
a massage student who practically made me weep in public by offering me a massage that I didn’t have time to accept. (Seriously. What sort of a taunting is that from the universe?)
Our lady Jae of the comments…
(Kind enough to offer to take me for a beer I didn’t have time to accept. See the theme? It’s killing me.)
Lo! A pack of free range knitbloggers appears before me!
Fyberduck, Ewe Spinster, and Miriam, Fyberduck even gave me a wee duck with a handspun (cashmere) itty-bitty, teeny-tiny, micro snowdrop shawl on. I think it is (despite my usual aversion to stuffed animals) extremely compelling. It has even made me smile four or five times since I got it. I think it’s the knitting.
Next up…
Three small knitters. Well. Two small knitters. Luca and Melissa are full fledged knitters, but Noah is not yet. (He seemed to me to be two or three.) I am absolutely certain that he will be though, since his end of evening meltdown (which followed two hours of really, really good behaviour that kept him up past bedtime) consisted of him crying that he wanted to knit and have yarn. His mum Monique whisked him away (I’m sure he got yarn) but I can’t tell you how much I sympathized with him. At the end of a long hard day where I was very good I often want to cry until someone gives me yarn and lets me knit.
Finally, there’s one in every crowd.
Meet April. Look at circumference of April. Look at the circumference of the beautiful Kaffe inspired bag in front of her.
Know that before the knitting muses directed one of their cruel gauge capers in Aprils direction, that was to be a sweater. For her.
Once the butt of a knitting muses intarsia gauge jokes, there is little room for recovery. April figured it though. Exit sleeves and neck, enter a seam along the bottom and a lining…and whammo. Bag.
April is not going gently into that good night.
I’m off to California. Utah was beyond wonderful, and will get a whole post of it’s own. I’m a little behind. (I’ve also screwed up my knitting in a fantastic way that is taking whole States to recover from. Lack of sleep and coffee makes you an easy target for the muses.)
I don’t know if target for muses is quite right. The Fates, maybe since those ladies were known to have somewhat dubious senses of humor!
Thanks for showing us April’s genius! I have a few sweaters that suddenly want to become bags because I’m too distracted by other projects to knit the sleeves!
Oh yes, I’ve felt Noah’s pain!
So glad you had fun in Eugene and Portland. The next time you come we should wisk you away to Farmhouse Knits where all of the Blue Moon yarns live. Not just the sock yarn, everything. I cry a little each time I go because I can’t take it all home with me. Have fun in California and Wisconsin, I do not envy your jet lag.
Perhaps, my drowsy dearest, you don’t need so much to flush the camera as try some of the other flash settings, not just ‘auto’?
April is in my s&b group, and once made a pillow. on size 2 needles. from rowan. because it would have been too big for a sweater and she didn’t want to frog it. She’s a genius, I swear, and one of these days I’m going to get her to teach me to knit colorwork two-handed because it’s amazing to watch.
Oh my Lord how do you so it ? Free massage and free beer and no time to partake.!! Muses messing with your knitting ,camera, and getting up at Un Godly hours to rush to a plane. Its a wonder to me that you still take time to blog, and thank you very much for doing so. Take some time to sleep so the muses leave you alone. Happy landing for the next stop.
Just had to drop you a note today because my sweetheart and I were strolling through our Brooklyn neighborhood this afternoon and decided to poke around in the local Barnes and Noble. My sweetheart saw the poster announcing your visit for next Saturday and said to me “hey, your pal the Harlot is coming to town!” this got a very strange (and very funny) look from another lady in the store. She is apparently a muggle.
Anyway – just had to let you know how much we’re looking forward to seeing you next week here in NYC! Travel safe!
My 47 year old ovaries cramped at the site of those babies. Thank goodness I have a 6 month old Goddaughter!
The way I see it, it’s a tradeoff. If you slow down your tour and take a little more time in each place, you have to spend more time away from your family. Apparently you have chosen the other way–the one where you’re gone the least amount of time but instead you lose track of reality and wake up in a panic and always wonder what you’re forgetting and mourn over lost FREE massages. Sacrifices have to be made.
And the babies! Just when I was feeling all resigned to the fact that my baby days are over . . . which they totally are, by the way. It’s just after looking at those pictures I regret it a little!
With all that travel how’s the book writing going? Are you telling the crowd what book #4 is about? Have you had a chance to put up anything in your “box of knit goodies that you’ll use for last minutes Christmas gifts”? Hint…..start knitting some scarves and hats now. I do not want to see another batch of burnt cookies in the snow this December.
Just so you know, because of you I’ve already got one Christmas gift finished, one two-thirds finished, and one a quarter finished, with the wool (Noro Iro) for two more in hand. That SOS KNIT line from last year had me rolling but *fearful*. See you in Brooklyn!
I can’t believe you really remember us, you amazing woman you!
Wishing you a bit of down time in California!
Oh my good lord your heading to the land of………….
breath in pink …..exhale blue……
you can do it you can do it keep going keep going, we are with you
just breath in pinl exhale blue. You know the theme.
No time for a massage? Cruel cruel shoes. Enjoy California…the produce is so fresh (compared to the hinterlands here in Maine, enjoy the great wine, find some good beer (though we enjoyed Portland’s beer), have a cuppa good joe! Or two! Way to go April!
I’m in Portland and had class so I couldn’t come see you — but I just had to comment to say “yay mirror pond” 😉
Thank you, oh Harlot, for blogging.
I got to miss seeing you in PA earlier this year, but I’m glad to get to read about the rest of the tour(s).
I was having a blah day and you brightened it.
you are ONE busy lady! i’m sorry to hear you weren’t able to partake in the free massage:(
Dear Universe,
Please stop being mean to Stephanie. She’s a very nice person, and she deserves a massage.
love, Riin
***HUGS***
Hang in there Steph and make hubby give you a well deserved back rub once you get home. Hubby back rubs are always more fun anyway 😉
Is the sock drinking beer there? lol.
My mom says she saw a spinning wheel at an auction today that had all of the parts with it. She said it was in pretty good condition and went for a $100. I do not know how to spin, but it is something that I want to learn how to do someday. So now we were wondering if she had missed a really good deal, because it was in good shape and had all of the parts with it. I am not sure how much spinning wheels typical cost, or what you would all normally need to be able to do that.
Right this minute you are wrapping up your talk in Los Altos, a mere 60 miles from here in Santa Cruz. My heart weeps that I am unable to bask in your presence. I will knit tonight in your honor.
Enjoy your visit to California!
Denise
Hey, at least you had the Ruby Ale, right? Did you end up having some that night (bucket of ice at hand, maybe?)? If so, what did you think of it????
A shame you didn’t have time to accept that massage. Hope you find time to get one when you get home, at least. You could use one, by that time, I’d think.
Be safe, knit well, enjoy beer ^_~
cramps deluxe, beautiful juicy babies.
Yeah, that panic feeling, know it only too well. Looks like you’re having a fabulous time though, even though you didn’t have time for the beer and massage, damn.
Take good care of yourself, and thanks for the update.
*16 hours* in Eugene?! Criminy, what is that, a novel way to assassinate authors? But at least you had *some* beer. 😉 And it’s amazing you’re managing to give any coherent reports at all by this time; we appreciate it muchly! I especially enjoyed checking out the reports on all the blogs you linked, and finding all these other Oregon knitters. (I’m a recluse, normally.) Which led me to turn a bright green after reading Ewe Spinster’s report and seeing her pix, because people getting books signed *got a chair* to sit in while chatting with you in Eugene. !! I’m plotting revenge against Powell’s for their lousy planning. [g] Well, I did buy some stuff off Amazon instead… Oh, and made my first sock yarn purchase(s). It’s all your fault. You and Franklin Habit. I’ve been sockBorged. I’m gonna go whine about it on my blog now. You guys are evil. 😉
April has inspired me to create stuff I didn’t even know I was making! Yay!
I am on the Yarn Harlot’s blog. Woot woot!!!! Seeing Stephanie was the highlight of my trip.
It’s a shame you didn’t get to spend more time in Eugene. It’s a great city with a free spirit. I moved here last year from Pittsburgh, and if I can’t realize my dream of immigrating to Canada, then I will be perfectly content to remain here.
I was so jazzed to talk with you. Despite your humble dismissal of my observation, I still think you’re one of the “rock stars” of the knitting world.
And that comment you made about knitting being a sport? I was thinking that I would so totally sit and watch people knit.
Nineteen hours to Eau Claire. Please rest and take care of yourself, Harlot dear, we don’t want the Dairy State to be the book tour stop that convinced you to stop writing books. Although it looks like, in spite of too little sleep and too much activity you are bearing up remarkably well, even smiling for gonzopants’s camera. Thanks FSM that you have some time off after Wisconsin.
I’m going to be regretting for a long time that I was too shy to tell the Yarn Harlot that I too am a knitblogger. At least I got my pic taken with you!
Just wanted to let you know I’ve loved all three books, and you’ve inspired me to pick back up my first (long abandoned) sock project, and I’m now on pair two and having SO much fun. Thanks!
Utah sure looked great…I’m still here waiting for Granby!
Okay, so that was Eugene…obviously beside myself waiting for Granby….
I just thought I should let you know that you are now #1 AND #2 when you google for Harlot. I didn’t click the other links in the top 10 to find the naughty one. 😉
Thanks so much for letting me come to the front of the line so I could get my books signed and my baby home to sleep.
Wow… now I’ve actually got to start putting real knitting content on my blog! And thanks for re-taking my picture… I can’t imagine how “manic” I must have looked the first time! 🙂
And don’t worry – either you’ll come back to Eugene or I’ll come to Toronto – you *will* get that massage.
Stephanie~
Thanks for signing the Eugene Public Library’s copy of your first book!!
I returned the book today, and I hope that some muggle picks it up, and is inspired to become one of us a.k.a. a ‘knitter’…..
So glad I was finally able to meet you….I’ve only been knitting (spinning and weaving) for a year and a half, but in that short period of time I’ve been continually inspired by your books and your blog.
I finished my first snowdrop shawl this summer, for my Grandmother’s 81st birthday, and she just loved it!
Now I’m working on my second snowdrop shawl (in hot pink, and for me)….
Can’t thank you enough for the pattern – it really opened my eyes to the joys of lace knitting, and I can’t wait to take on other challenges………
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You
I will console myself after seeing this picture in saying that my brain wasn’t completely fried from studying for a French final and I really wasn’t holding the sock upside down:
I was merely modeling the fine stiching.
but it was lovely to meet you, and hopefully next round you’ll get more than a pittance of time in Eugene. The sock, I think, would look excellent posing in front of Autzen Stadium. 🙂
I second Emmos’ (ewe_spinster’s) appreciation. It’s a shame you didn’t get more time in Eugene! Autzen would be good, but I think a foot-bridge over the Willamette would be better with the sock…
Oh, and don’t believe Emmos, the ducky’s shawl is handspun Egyptian cotton, not cashmere (poor student). But, I’m glad you liked her and her shawl. We all in the Guild really love the snowdrop shawl pattern!
You know, I was actually wondering the other day how the “rock-star jet-set” lifestyle was suiting you; I was placing bets on the stressful side of time zone jumping…
Too much travel, not enough knit (or massages or beer!) could make Harlot a grumpy girl – and we can’t have that! You need at least 36 hours in each state, for heaven’s sake!
I too was shy! All I could do was sit and grin and luckily you were witty and gracious with me just beaming in your presence. Thanks so much for the visit, it was fun and enlightening to know I’m not the only fiberfreak out there!
I ALWAYS go to the shops that you link to and am not disappointed. Tempted, but not disappointed. This time, the only question is where’s the yarn?
forgot the wink.
😉
I love to read about your travels, and the resulting adventures. I just wish you’d come to Cleveland and have some here!
Can I just say that I’m so jealous of all the knit bloggers you’ve gotten to meet?? Fyberduck is the coolest, isn’t she?
I love the little knitters! Despite all the travelling you’ve done, or maybe because of it, your posts about your trips are always so funny… in a frantic and fly-by kind of way. I have yet to make it to one of your events but I’m hoping that day will come eventually.
That is very sad about the massage and the beer. But I am glad your tour is still on schedule. I am waiting with bated breath for your arrival at the Park Slope Barnes and Noble in New York.
deepest sympathies for having to turn down a massage AND beer… that is rough. hope you get both at the next stop.
i love these posts about your travels… only wish your tour would take you down to florida! it may be 95 F in the shade, but we’re knitting nonetheless 🙂
Can’t wait to see you in Eau Claire! I’m leaving my house in about an hour (it’s 8:45 am here). I imagine I’ll get home between 1 and 2 am. Boy–my students are in for an interesting (if braindead) Monday! Mwah ha ha ha! Yay, yay, yay, happy yarn harlot dance!!!!!!
Yeesh, I am amazed you even remember which end is up and to go to sleep in the bed, not the bathtub, nevermind where you are with that schedule.
Poor Noah. If his mama didn’t give him yarn and needles, I have a few snarled bits of dishcloth yarn and an extra pair of red needles for him. My daughter will share her “knitting”.
Love the Dylan Thomas reference.
Some years ago I had a job that required me for several months to fly back and forth from Boston to Newark, NJ (a place of no historic or scenic interest whatsoever) every week, sometimes for one day, sometimes for two or three. At least once I went there twice in one week. So I have some small idea of what it’s like for you, except that I always knew what city I was in, since I always woke up either in my own bed or in a hotel room.
(Finally there came a month when no one could think of a reason to send me to New Jersey. At the end of it I found myself pregnant.)
You need to tell your tour director to build in time for massages & beer. I promise to offer you both whenever you return to St. Louis. (I’ve never been a massage student, but I do give a most excellent shoulder rub.)
*** Waiting rather impatiently for Icarus & Miriam pics from Utah ***
Turning down BOTH a beer and a massage due to lack of time in a mere 16 hour period?!
That’s evil. Eeeeeeeeevil, I say!!!
You are truly noble to soldier on like this for us. I laughed mucho-much last night in Los Altos. And basked in laughing while listening to someone speak while knitting in front of GOD AND EVERYBODY without having to say, “Sh! Yes, sock! Sh! Yes, really. SH! Yes, that is a lot of needles now will you PLEASE hush?!?!?!” twenty-seven times…
Silly, silly loribird. What would we do with a serene, rested, angstless Harlot? A blog flatliner — brrrrrr. Still, not to worry — even if the Universe were cruel enough to offer the opportunity, I have faith in Steph to sabatoge it, creating deadlines out of thin air, pressure out of vaccum. (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
Ohhhhh I hate that feeling of coming out of a deep sleep and not knowing if I am late or where I am!!! I do hope you get some R & R on this trip! I have to say Steph…I am still giggling about the Muggles…sooooo perfect…because if they don’t understand about the magic of knitting and the bigger magic of knitters…then, well, they are Muggles! And freaking them out is so much fun! Please take care of yourself, we need your humor and insight intact.
steph, I with the others hoping you some down time soon,Wish i could be in Eau Claire to see you but do to some previously scheduled conflicts and a lack of a grammasitter.thats another story,I’ll be content to hear how things went.Remember you are in the state where beer and cheese, brats plus any other northwoods delecties should be partaken with lots of friends.Kristy from Lodi
Well, wow. And I thought I had it hard working on tax returns till all hours of the (early) morning. 16 hours in one city. Then another plane. You have my sympathies. Ladies, I think we need to get together and arrange a nice restful spa visit for the poor Harlot after the tour is over . . .
Hours, you are only hours away. I shall bask in your presence. Packed my sock, packed a gift. . . trying to figure out how to smuggle in the beer. Shall do my very best!
Oh those three little knitters!!! YEAH for them to be able to knit, well, except for the littlest. I know he will be knitting soon, his mom will make sure of it, right Monique?
I am so glad you have been able to at least try some of the beer that Oregon offers. You need to spend a month or two here and try everything!! Including that massage.
Zoom, zOOm, zooM
You are a dust devil all on your own (I mean that in a good way, you know).
Poor little guy! I know I”ve hit that point in the day. I just want yarn and just to knit. 😀
I’m so sorry I’m missing you in WS. 🙁
What bribes will it take to get you to MN? Good yarn stores? I’m sure I can fine you excellent beer as well.
😀
love your books/blog! Any plans on coming to Vancouver? (we just got a new yarn shop!!!)
…I have 12 friends showing up tomorrow night for a first knitting lesson (yay, more converts!), and will share your books with them as inspiration!
All you need to remember for those extra boosts of energy on your travels, is to remember to pack an IV of Tim Horton’s coffee and you’ll be ready to roll each and every time – and be wide awake your entire journey!
Dear harlot, your schedule makes me tired and I’m just reading about it! I must say I’d take my hat off to you (if I wore a hat). When does Canada go back to school. You must be going bonkers with the back to school mode coinciding with the tour mode. I must say, I do wish you’d be visiting us in NJ! Not to ad pressure or guilt or anything… just sayin’
I don’t know if you’ll have time to read down this far while on your trek but I think the company that makes Ziploc bags heard your plea for bags that will fit all the yarn needed for a sweater. They now sell XL and XXL ziploc bags! You can store all kinds of stuff, which is cool since I need to do some serious organizing around this house. The XXL bags are big enough to store rolls of wrapping paper so we’re talking big bags. Just thought I’d pass along the info.
I’m hoping to be in NYC for Knit Out next Sunday. I usually babysit my granddaughter every Sunday while her Mommy works but I think I’m getting a day off. 😉 I’m SO looking forward to seeing you there!
ta-ta
I hope that you survived the 9 (!!!) zones of knitters in Los Altos after I departed. I had planned to offer a beer and chow afterwards but left at 9pm feeling bad for you because I was in Zone 3 and leaving so late already. Boy, you looked like you could use a drink and a good long nap. Maybe when I am in Toronto in the spring… 🙂
Can’t wait for the update; enjoy the Peet’s and Post-Its!
So good to meet one of my knitter’s idols. Like I said, I read your books too, since it helps me understand my knitter girlfriend!
The real shame of you not at least having Friday to be in Eugene, was that you missed out on the Eugene Celebration. Hardly 24 hours after you graced the stage, there was jazz and other music galore. Maybe next tour, you can be around here for one heck of a street party:
http://www.eugenecelebration.com/
Ooo, you’re going to California? Where?? I just moved to LA, and I’d SO like to meet you!
Oh…I’m so very very glad you’re having a good tour… if you heard quiet heart-deep weeping on Saturday, it was me, knowing you were only three hours away and too overwhelmed w/work/school/children/soccer season/book fishing et all to attend…
We need to define a new category: author abuse.
That kind of schedule went out with vaudeville.
Seriously, you need to be firm with whoever schedules your tours. Don’t let Pongo the wonder publicist do a Janis Joplin on you. Insist that the tour for the next book must have at least 24 hours in the same city as each talk, and that 24 hours will include at least 8 hours sleep, not including time needed to shower, eat breakfast, etc.
Yikes! This is what made me give up business travel (or at least cut back) waking up and not sure what state you are in is just wrong! I hope you had a great trip to Eau Claire. There is certainly no shortage of beer in Wisconsin (they have to give up the whole America’s Dairyland slogan and just admit they are the America’s Beerland). I’m sorry that I couldn’t be there to see you in person having followed your blog since the beginning and having read all of your books. Maybe a stop in Minnesota will be on the agenda some time and I can come see you then. Safe travels Stephanie!
Next time you see a little dust devil (not the big ones that get to F0 tornado strength, but a nice little 4ft wide deal) it is fun to jump inside them. We spent way too much time shouting “Tornado” then jumping into dustdevils at recess in elementary school.
Now that I live where there really are tornados, I wonder at our silliness.
Waaa. Stephanie is going to be in New York and I can’t come? I got a little “over-extended” this summer, otherwise I’d be there. It’s only about $80 round trip from central PA on Amtrak (no driving/parking in NYC and lots of loverly knitting time), but limited funds and the fact that the Knit-Out is on Sunday is keeping me home. Oh, well. I’ll have to console myself with the Knitters’ Day Out in Summerdale on Saturday instead. Thank heavens that was already paid for! (I don’t need more yarn. I don’t need more yarn. I don’t need more yarn. How many more times do I have to repeat before I believe it?)
Does drinking beer while you’re knitting work? I’m a light wieght when it comes to drinking and I think it would show in my knitting. But my husband does make beer so we usually have beer on tap at home.
How do you stay so thin drinking beer and eating chocolate? I’m a chocolate fiend and I’m not thin anymore.
I hope you can see this url, Stephanie, because you’re the Picture of the Day in today’s PWDaily, the e-mail newsletter of Publishers Weekly: the sock, with knitters in Portland! Yay, you! Even more famous!
http://www.publishersweekly.com/eNewsletter/CA6370458/2286.html
PS I made my first pair of socks!
First, I am overjoyed that you drank a Mirror Pond. It’s one of the best things about visiting this part of the world. Second, I’m really very sad that I didn’t get to drink with you. And third, next year, could you come to Seattle at a time that is not Labor Day Weekend? Thanks. Glad to hear that you had a good time though.
hooray for good Oregonian beer! and yarn-related temper tantrums.
Oh no, beer for breakfast *again*?
We loved seeing you in SLC and sorry to hear of the (very understandable) panic attack. I hope you were able to enjoy a microbrew or 2 or 3 to help recover your “grip!”
Beeeeer.
Beeeeeeeeeer.
I won’t have a nursling forever, right? Please, when you’re enjoying all of these wonderful brews, think of the poor nursing and/or pregnant women everywhere drooling over the pictures of the beeeeeer in your blog.
I’ve been a little concerned about the mental health of your southern cousins (residents of the US, including myself) for a while and that concern was slightly elevated when I looked up sport in my office dictionary. You gave the Canadian definition, which I thought would be the same as the definition provided in a dictionary from the US, which fit for knitting so well. Alas, the definition I found in the Merriam-Webster’s on my bookshelf went something like this: 1a: a source of diversion: RECREATION b: sexual play . . .
Maybe I’m out-of-the-loop, but that seems a little pervy to me. I’ve never called sexual play sport. I don’t mind knitting being compared to sex, but sport to define sex? Am I an old dinosaur at the early age of 39? I guess you probably didn’t plan on going there.
I fully sympathise with Noah, I’ve felt like that a /lot/ recently!!
You always make me smile with your blogs, and today is doubley so, as your book knitting rules just came through the post…and has already made me laugh and smile!! It’s made my day!
Love the stuff you do, you need to come to the UK though!!
Kayla (with cramping ovaries!!) :~)
Re: fuzzy digital pics. Try charging the batteries up… mine refuses to focus if the batteries are “tired”. Either that or hold still when you shoot pictures!!!
I don’t think it’s your camera…. have you tried a tripod or just resting the camera on the podium? It’s awfully dark in some of these places and the flash probably isn’t strong enough.
It was a pleasure to meet you. Thank you for doing a book tour!
Steph, have you or are you planning to come to the Washington DC, or Baltimore area anytime soon? I would love to show you around……..its beautiful here………
Of course knitting is sporting… all those soft fuzzy balls of yarn, warm snuggly bedcovers, sweaters that fit like a hug, and did you not read the name of the blog? The second definition goes back at least to the 1930s and probably much further.
Yay, team!
Just in case……..remember I have a white one too. Just call baby
I just realized I posted a comment to your Sep 7 blog –AACK! Sorry about that. I hope you get it anyway (it has a compliment in there)
I guess I am still a little bit “post surgical.”
oh dear. I feel for you and the muses taunting you. I did battle last night with the muses over a large skein of handdyed yarn – they convinced the skein winder and swift to try to eat said yarn for some reason. It took hours of recovery. I can’t belive you didn’t see a Dust Devil while you were down here in Arizona…we get ginormous ones, along with those Haboobs 😉
You say that knitting is just two stitches. Well the piano has only black and white keys. It takes time, patience and talent to do what you do. Never underestimate your talent. I can knit, it’s not difficult. It’s the speciality stuff that sticks in my craw. What ever that is LOL.
Me, I just turned my first sock and had to put it down and have a glass of wine to celebrate.
Knit on Sister!
Empathy with your panic is bringing me out of Lurkerville. When travelling, I have learned to leave a note on my hotel nightstand telling me where I am, what time I need to wake up, and what my first appointment is. Generally, I am better keyed into reality before I go to bed. Hope this helps you, too, to get more rest. Sounds like you need every minute you can get!
Can anyone get a mock-up pattern from April? I too have a Kaffe-inspired sweater that is arm-less and neck-less. I too would like a cool knitting bag from knitting!
I remember and still experience terrorized sleeping. I stopped the terror 3 years ago but still dream about it. As much as I appreciate your books and look forward to them, not to mention the blog… YOU MUST HEED THE WARNING SIGNS! It’s not worth what you have deceived yourself into believing, “We can’t get along without this income.”
i am looking forward to seeing you at our knitting guild meeting this year.
This is a little late, but life is busy. Thank you, Stephanie, for a wonderful event in Portland. I work at the Powells you were in, and the comments I read about the evening were dead on. I don’t know why you were put into such a small store considering the number of people at your last reading at Powells. We were excited to have you, there are few of us knitters in the store and we are quiet, but passionate about our needles. You took it all in stride and all you knitters who came were wonderful! People like you make working in retail a pleasure.
For those of you reading who were there and frustrated by the lack of space/time, etc, please let Powells know! Call the main store and ask to talk to Michal Drannon. Shhh, you didn’t hear that from me.
I’m not too fond of change either – although I didn’t figure that out until recently – anyway…
I love the pop art pictures of the shawl. They would make a great cover for a book or at least some beautiful cards – think about it!?!
Wow, our picture made it up onto the blog. I am glad that you had a good, if short, time in Eugene.
Now I will go back to working on the snowdrop shawl (it will eventually be finished, right?)