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(In which our intrepid knitter is anything but.)

I am certain, if you have been reading this blog for a little while, (or…if you have just dropped by for 35 seconds) that you may have begun to form an opinion that I move fast and may not be the most organized soul on the planet. (I may actually be in competition for “least organized woman alive” but you may have guessed that as well.) Today I’m going to try to pull together some loose ends.

1. The TSF/KWB total remains a work in progress. The total in the sidebar is current only through the 26th of December, as we I await the potential for data recovery on the hard drive that has all the rest of the emails on it. If that data can’t be recovered we I will have to execute a plan I’ve been formulating to fix things up…but for this moment in time, we are waiting. I haven’t forgotten, there is still much work to be done there….but for now we are waiting for the muses that rule technology to smile on me. Cross your needles.

2. I am going to try and go forward with the hats for the homeless part of the Represent tour. (I’m also going to try and do this whole thing in a way that doesn’t explode into complete chaos.) After a great deal of personal reflection, I think the best thing to do is for me to find volunteers in NYC willing to accept the hats, to bring them to the event at FIT and to then drop them at a shelter afterwards. (I tried to figure out how I could handle it myself and it’s just not possible. What was I thinking?) What I need to make that work is a couple of NYC knitters who would be willing to receive them. If you live in NYC, and you have an address that people could mail hats to (I would email your address to interested knitters, not put it on the blog, unless you wanted that…like if you were a yarn store or something…) could you email me or leave a comment to that effect?

(I also need “tour guides” for yarn shop crawls? Any social and welcoming knitters out there willing to take out-of-towner knitters under their wing?)

3. If you are going to be seeing me in your city, don’t mail your hat(s). Save it for your local event, and we’ll find a shelter in each city so that we can spread the love around.

4. I finished the ribwarmer

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and love it to death. (That’s snowflakes on it, not some novelty yarn thing.) It is not the apex of fashion, but neither am I, so I couldn’t be happier that it is simply warm and useful and a very good shade of green.

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(Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Ribwamer, from Knitting Workshop, knit from 1.5 skeins of Fleece Artist “Country Wool” 100% wool – 175m to 100g, knit on 4.5mm needles, in a colour that has no name or number (like a lot of the Fleece Artist stuff) that I liberated from a sale bin in the basement of Romni Wools at a stupid cheap price and knew was destined for greatness.)

5. The Bohus is done to the waist and has one completed sleeve.

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I chose not to knit the ribbing, but instead to knit to the length that I wanted, then purled a round to make a turning ridge, then knit about 3cm on a smaller size needle to make a hem that I’ll turn under and sew down inside. I am pleased.

6. June 7th in Petaluma CA has been added to the list of stops I’ll be making. Jayme-the-wonder-publicist continues to be on her game.

7. Joe is away for 5 days, (Joe, if you are reading this, stop now.) and because I have apparently been watching way too much While You Were Out, I have a plan. Since I do not have a tv crew, a carpenter and a designer to help me with this plan, the outcome should be rather unpredictable.

8. I am pretty upset about Starbuck, let me tell you.

Did I miss anything?

248 thoughts on “Organized”

  1. You’ve always seemed amazingly organized to me. To the point where you’re sort of my hero. Don’t burst my bubble!
    Any thoughts of doing a Canadian version of your NYC tour?
    (first post woot!)

  2. Why you have about 50 things running thru you head at one time, you seem fairly organized to me.

  3. Wow, two sweaters — one finished, one almost — and still time to do some work, plan some home improvements and parent. If that’s not organization, it’s at least excellent time management! Maybe sometime you can tell us how you do that.

  4. I love your Bohus sweater, makes me think of the Northern Lights. Don’t worry about Starbuck, I sense a comeback at a crucial moment. Our girl will be back to save the day!(I fracking well hope so).

  5. Another word for: “It is not the apex of fashion,” is “classic.” And, consequently, quite useful for longer than twenty minutes. Very cute!

  6. Organization in a strick form is over rated. To each her own version of storing and finding later, I say. And regarding your next book tour/yarn crawl, can you come to Lansing/East Lansing, MI sometime and yarn crawl to Woven Art, Rae’s, or Yarn for Ewe (all my favorite places for lots and lots of reasons)? The last time you came to Ann Arbor, MI I was going “up North” for a summer get away. This next round on April 1st is the start of spring break for our area and there will be no getting to Ann Arbor. Please come to Lansing/East Lansing soooon….And the rib warmer is my next pattern search…going to google now…

  7. The ribwarmer is great! I love how EZ does shaping. Also you are very brave to attempt your own “While You Were Out”. Hopefully you don’t completely trash the house, I know my guy would kill me for that.

  8. A stop back in Lexington, KY, would be wonderful, too. We’d love to see you again! And for someone “disorganized”, you do get an amazing amount of work done. I wouldn’t sweat the organization thing.

  9. As for Starbuck, I simply refuse to believe that she is dead. I mean, what kind of “destiny” is it to die?
    But I still cried like a baby while I was watching it.

  10. I can only one day hope to knit something anywhere near the beauty of the ‘Bohus’ – *drool*.
    ‘Organization’ is over rated – kind of like ‘Fashion. It’s all in the mind of the beholder.
    BTW – Very excited – just put in my advance order for your new book…24 sleeps to go. 🙂 When is the Canadian Tour going to be announced? Once moe I would like to Lobby for Toronto as the Book launch locale.

  11. I can only one day hope to knit something anywhere near the beauty of the ‘Bohus’ – *drool*.
    ‘Organization’ is over rated – kind of like ‘Fashion. It’s all in the mind of the beholder.
    BTW – Very excited – just put in my advance order for your new book…24 sleeps to go. 🙂 When is the Canadian Tour going to be announced? Once moe I would like to Lobby for Toronto as the Book launch locale.

  12. From my experiences of it, this “organization” thing is overrated. As long as you can find your yarn, your kids and Joe (not necessarily in that order), you’ve got it made.
    Love the ribwarmer, and the Bohus just gets more and more gorgeous.

  13. A knitter in NYC just posted to her blog that her mother found a Bohus in a THRIFT STORE for $1.50!!! (her blog is: http://nomoresweaters.blogspot.com )
    Can you believe it? I’m so glad that she saved it and hopefully now it will be treated with the love it deserves!
    Also, my (male) roommates are out of town and I’m considering a “while you were out” makeover of my own… which will probably just mean I throw out the heniously ugly shower curtain and get some new slip covers, but, hey, you do what you can!

  14. My husband travels quite frequently and I am always trying to do “while you were out” things to the house to surprise him on his return–I tend to be overly optimistic on the timing and he comes home to chaotic mess! I am sending a quick prayer to the Goddess of Time Management that you will succeed where I have failed. If not, my guess is Joe is the kind of fellow who will appreciate your efforts and pitch in to help you finish whatever you have planned!!
    I know you were just here, but please do not forget to return to Montreal for your new book tour–can I bribe you with a shipment of bagels and cheese curds??

  16. Good luck with Joe’s big surprise. Remember, little things can make all the difference. I assume this new idea has something to do with organization?
    Already have a couple hats to send. I’m working hard on more!
    Oh, and I preordered your book from Amazon. Yay!

  17. OMG…SO AM I, UPSET ABOUT STARBUCK!! My husband refuses to believe she is dead. I can’t believe they’d write her character out. She’s got to come back…! In other news…the bohus is lovely. I am treading rather carefully into the waters of my first design-it-yourself knitting and am totally freaking…wish me well!

  18. i am willing (and happy) to be a tour guide
    i would be very willing to meet anyone who is flying in (at either airport) or to meet anyone who is taking any commuter rail, or bus. (the PA bus terminal is scary!)
    oftroyATrcnDOTcom- to reach me.

  19. My first post to you!
    Just wanted to say The Bohus is beautiful!
    Your blog’s my fave and your books are on my birthday list!

  20. Yeah, take pity on those of us who are forced to watch BSG on DVD and are still waiting to see *any* of season 3.0.

  21. I love the ribwarmer. I have to confess, I have been purchasing vest patterns, but avoiding making them. I have the, perhaps horribly misguided belief, that vests are the knitting ilk of middle-aged women. I will probably be peppered with hate-comments for typing that, ack! So I need to get over myself and knit one, make it my own. I think the ribwarmer is a fabulous contender.
    In other news – OK, so Petaluma, what about San Francisco. I tried emailing Jayme, but maybe at a time when she was being bombarded with VIP requests for the Represent Tour, NYC kick off. I want to see a Yarn Harlot stop at Dolores Park in the heart of San Francisco. This park holds many summer events – Opera in the Park, SF Mime Troupe. Why not the Yarn Harlot. I know, outdoors in San Francisco in June is a crapshoot, the famous Mark Twain line, “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” But you are Canadian, made of tough stuff. Harlot in the Park. C’mon.

  22. i am willing (and happy) to be a tour guide
    i would be very willing to meet anyone who is flying in (at either airport) or to meet anyone who is taking any commuter rail, or bus. (the PA bus terminal is scary!)
    oftroyATrcnDOTcom- to reach me.

  24. Organization is overrated. In fact, I don’t entirely trust people whose homes are spotless and whose lives are organized; it’s just not normal. I admit I’m striving to get my life organized enough to see you at FIT. Children being what they are, it’s not looking good. Bohus is looking good, though.
    EZ designs are the apex of timeless knitting cleverness. Fashion be damned.
    Must be the coming Spring or something because my husband is going away for three days and I have paint and fabric waiting in the wings. If things get really wild there may even be some sheetrocking going on here. Good luck on your makeover.

  25. Wow, you may not think you’re organized, but you sure can produce!
    The Bohus looks terrific and I may have to cave on my yarn diet to try one.
    I love the vest. Being unfamiliar with the EZ book you used, I was having a hard time imagining how strips of shaped garter could possibly yield a garment. Genius!

  26. Organization, smorganization! I just started reading this book:
    “A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder–How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place” – here is the link for Amazon:
    The premise being that all this organizing comes at a cost that is rarely if ever, considered. Finally we are vindicated! I will report further as I read more.
    Love the Ribwarmer! That is thee clearest photo of one I have seen yet and I really want to go forth and knit one, now that I see the clever construction and all.
    Stunning Bohus! What color is the body/lower sleeves really? My monitor has shown me several different interpretations – all of which look smashing but if I was to pass you on the street I would want to be able to recognize the sweater in person. Oh, but I probably would recognize you first – okay, it was a lame excuse for the color question. But I am curious, none the less.

  28. Organization is overrated. In fact, I don’t entirely trust people whose homes are spotless and whose lives are organized; it’s just not normal. I admit I’m striving to get my life organized enough to see you at FIT. Children being what they are, it’s not looking good. Bohus is looking good, though.
    EZ designs are the apex of timeless knitting cleverness. Fashion be damned.
    Must be the coming Spring or something because my husband is going away for three days and I have paint and fabric waiting in the wings. If things get really wild there may even be some sheetrocking going on here. Good luck on your makeover.

  29. Be careful with the While You Were Out stuff. My husband reminded me this is the one year anniversary of when I tried to surprise him by replacing the oak fixtures with chrome ones in our tiny bathroom. One $10,000 remodeled space later…..
    Did you get my e-mail about the Gail Rothschild exhibit at Stitch Therapy in NYC through the 24th?
    Great Bohus! Maybe I’ll go to my thrift store and see if I can find one for $1.50.
    P.S. to Jayme: Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival, Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival, Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival……

  31. People can mail hats to me…I’m not a yarn store or anything, and have a rather small mailbox, but the mail carrier can always leave me a slip to pick stuff up at the P.O.(hope they/I can keep up!) Looking forward to Representing!
    Pretty shocking about Starbuck but I’m also sure she’ll be back, one way or another.

  32. I’ll SO be at the new stop in Petaluma — MY FREAKING HOMETOWN — how is it that I’m so lucky to have the Harlot come to my insanely SMALL, out of the way place??? Oh the knitting gods do love me.
    However, I’m forced to ask — how is this a move to handling the insane crowds you draw? Cooperfields isn’t all that large — in fact given that not only are they smallish, parking is a joke around there — I’ll be walking in just to not have to deal with the cars.
    Perhaps Jayme would like to call me so I can share the reality of the size of the place??

  33. Starbuck? My daughter is still in tears.
    Los Altos last year; now I have to figure out where Petaluma is. I know I’ve seen that name on my map . . .

  34. When I wear my ribwarmer, my husband says I look like I’m from The Matrix (the, um, “real” parts.) I think it’s a complement to the style.

  35. I agree with Ellen-Mary – organization is overrated. And there was a headline in the Toronto Star a few weeks back – tidiness is overrated (too). I’ve pinned that on my large bulletin board – over the piles of papers, wool, files,yarn, patterns, stuff on my desk (beside my desk/under my desk….)
    Looking forward to seeing your personal version of While You Were Out.

  36. If we were all organized, we wouldn’t need others a much and that would be no fun. Kind of like never making a knitting mistake that takes us to other things we wouldn’t have known:)

  37. Your ribwarmer looks great. Looks like you knit it the “classic way” in two pieces that you seamed down the center back? My only ribwarmer was made with the alternative pattern with the back knit in one piece, and I was never happy with the fit. I want to try one your way, but I worry about how the back seam will look. Would you show us a photo of your seam?

  38. Let me get this straight, there was fleece artist yarn in a sale bin?!! Is Toronto some sort of magical fairy land? I live in Minneapolis and fleece artist can not be found anywhere locally let alone a sale bin. I am green(get it green, green rib warmer, I kill me) with envy. I know I can buy it on the online, but I want to touch it and I made this stupid new year’s resolution to knit only from my stash in 2007.
    peace out Harlot!

  39. When will there be a Canadian tour? Don’t forget about western Canada, praire provinces. We would love to see you out here.

  40. I would fight you for the title of Least Organized Woman on the Planet, but you’d probably get Jayme to book the venue and tell everyone to bring their hats and/or socks and… I’d forget to show up.
    Speaking of showing up, are you or are you not coming to the Boston area? Or anywhere in MA, really.

  41. I’ve read all your books and love everyone of them. You’re what knitting has always needed –
    So many of us now know we are not alone in our knitting frenzied life…
    Can you write more details about the FIT / NYC event? I’ve rearranged my Spring Break schedule to be there! I wouldn’t miss it for the world.
    as for BSG -I’m so lost, I have to begin again at season 1 and buy the DVD sets on ebay. I just lost track of it as they kept changing times, days, but it’s spectacular.
    Michelle

  42. I’ve read all your books and love everyone of them. You’re what knitting has always needed –
    So many of us now know we are not alone in our knitting frenzied life…
    Can you write more details about the FIT / NYC event? I’ve rearranged my Spring Break schedule to be there! I wouldn’t miss it for the world.

  43. I kinda knew the Starbuck thing was coming (bad me for reading spoilers! SHAME!) but I am still pretty damn upset. Not cool, BSG. Not cool at all.
    Looooooooove the ribwarmer, and while I am sure you are sick of snow at this point, I’m quite envious.

  44. Dude, I’m pretty upset about Starbuck too! And I love you a thousandfold more for being a BSG fan. =)

  45. Oh no no no no no.. you soooo did not mention something about Starbuck to make a poor not caught up person wonder what is going on!! OOOOOH now I cannot ever read your blog again.. that’s it done heheheh

  46. I am soooooo excited that you’re coming to Copperfield’s in Petaluma! When I saw that you were coming to California the day after my birthday, I told my boyfriend, it’s a road trip to the Harlot for my birthday, and I don’t care if we have to drive to Eureka or San Diego, I am not missing the Harlot this year. Now no long car trips are needed. It’s three blocks from his parents’ house. However, I am also curious what they will do for space. I can’t imagine how the town will react to knitters filling up their brand-new parking garage!

  47. I’m upset about Starbuck too! But I don’t think she’s dead. They showed this brief moment where she had her hand almost on the eject lever so I think she got out, but we probably won’t find out for at least a few episodes. They can’t just kill off a major character like that! Not cool! Besides, we have to find out what this great destiny of hers is.

  48. I’m working on a hat for your event as we travel around in our RV. As to the rib warmer – I have a question: When I knit it the front part where it turns (the short rows?) puckered out. I redid it over and over but never could get the bumps to not bump. When I was at the yarnstore, where I first saw it, I noticed that theirs did the same thing. Blocking etc. works for a short while. Having raised bumps at hip level isn’t flattering to my figure (gales of laughter). Can anything be done? Perhaps because it was an EZ pattern knockoff and the Knitting Goddess paying me back? I bought the pattern from the store with the display garment.

  49. I just worked at Stitches West and absolutely fell in love with the apron-bedecked girls from the Knitterly booth! Their yarn selection is pretty much to die for. You will have a great time with them!

  50. I just worked at Stitches West and absolutely fell in love with the apron-bedecked girls from the Knitterly (Petaluma yarn shop) booth! Their yarn selection is pretty much to die for. You will have a great time with them!

  51. Yay, Petaluma will be great (and I love Copperfied’s), but how about San Francisco??? We have loads of great bookstores – Books, Inc. & Cody’s are just a few of the larger, yet independent ones. We’d love to see you in SF! -Susan in SF

  52. I hope your “While You Were Out” thing goes much better than the one my husband attempted when I was out of town for a week, a year-and-a-half ago. (I actually saw you while I was on that vacation, at The Sheep Shack, in Massachusetts.) He started every home improvement project I had planned and finished none. It took me almost a year to put it all back together and he did not help nearly enough.
    I know you will do much better.

  53. You wouldn’t want to live in a house where everything must be in place at all times. Too crazy and hard to deal with. A happy house is usually messy and not filthy, but not on the cleanest house in Better Homes and Gardens either.
    I await with baited (sushi) breath for the hat address.

  54. I havn’t watched BSG season 3 yet. My kids have been monopolizing the tv what with all the stupid snow days. This current storm has given us a 4 day weekend again. 50 mile an hour winds takes the windchill down to negative digits. Please let there be school tomorrow! I hope the other BSG fans are right and Starbuck will be back. Frackin muggles for writting her out. Speaking of Harry, I preordered your new book along with Magical knits for fans of Harry Potter can’t wait.

  55. Has the ice/snow melted yet? Can’t wait to hear what the secret plan is — a newly-redecorated home for Mr. Washie, perhaps? Or have you gone ahead and added a spinning and knitting room, complete with private fridge, mini-bar and a coffeepot reserved only for you?
    And I shall not comment about Starbuck, because I am just about this close to not watching at this point . . . despite the presence of the glorious Mr. Bamber.

  59. The ribwarmer is gorgeous beyond belief. I made my first (and still my favorite) one from a 50% off yarn many years ago. It’s still going strong and I wear it more than any other sweater. Yours will have a long and happy life!

  60. OH NO! I shouldn’t have read the comments. I haven’t gotten that far into the series!! XD STARBUCK DEAD? I don’t believe it.
    Really…uh…yeah. 🙁
    In happier news, I love how the Bohus is coming along. It’s a beautiful, beautiful piece of work. I can’t wait to see you wearing it! 😀

  61. I started reading your blog in January after following a link from a completely unrelated forum. I was hiding from housework and your blog is funny so I kept reading it. Then I fell into the abyss. I went out and bought dishcloth yarn thinking the urge wuold pass, and after the fifth dishcloth in one week, I found a neat sock pattern on-line and knit my first ever pair of socks.
    Last week I went with my daughter to a real yarn shop. Wow! I did not know such colours and textures and amazing yarns existed, but I only bought what we went for (yarn to make wristwarmers.)
    But i find myself googling lacy shawl patterns, and I bought Knitting Rules while I was at Superstore to get cat litter, and I’m going to check local booksotres for the Elizabeth Zimmermann books,and I think my husband is worried.

  62. Hooray for the hats! I’ll break out the circulars and the wool! Someone with more knowledge than me about these things should put up a KAL blog; that would be really, really fun- and an easy way for any local media affiliates to get the stats and info.

  63. Au contraire, some of us figure the While-You-Were-Out thing is going to be irresistibly predictable — from a safe distance. Like, say, Kalamazoo.
    As to whether you forgot anything — how about Joe’s gansey?

  64. My impression as a reader is that you get more done before breakfast than most of the rest of us do all day long. If you’re not organized, I don’t know who is.
    p.s. just looking at the Bohus makes me happy.

  65. I adore your ribwarmer. I’m thinking it would be the perfect thing to knit with the Handmaiden 4-ply cashmere I picked up on sale last week. Same yardage stats as the Country Wool and wouldn’t it be scrumptious?!
    Thank you for mentioning the TSF/KWB total. I figured the bricked laptop was to blame for the delay.

  66. I used every ounce of remaining energy to keep myself from sobbing about Starbuck and looking like a moron in front of other humans. I distracted myself with a “Cast-On” podcast and some blogging. Hrmph.

  67. oh, oh! me too! send me the NY address so I can mail a hat since you’re not going to be anywhere near El Paso, Tx 🙁

  68. And not only is Starbuck alive, but Snape is innocent. (Dumbledore, however, has joined the choir invisible. If his picture weren’t nailed to the wall, he’d be pushing up daisies.)

  69. I’m a season behind, too.
    I’m trying very hard not to say the f-word in your comments, but f-ing Starbuck? How could they do that?!?
    Now I have to try to find a way to keep this information safe from Spiff. He’s a season behind, too. Sigh. The secrets I have to keep from this man…so painful….
    By the way, I just realised that the last two FOs I have were not only made with yarn you gave me, but they’re actually getting worn regularly. Thanks, dude, for helping to keep the family warm 🙂

  70. Bohus is a work of art and the vest is so right. All these remarks about BSG, I might have to check them out, hope they are online; I tend to watch/listen to PBS specials online when I knit.
    How wonderful you’ll be in California. I came to a abrupt halt about Copperfield’s being the location for a Petaluma Yarn Harlot presentation. My heart is still in my throat because what I know of the store – it is small (like the earliest pictures in your blog of your earliest presentations). It has lots of Northern California soup-to-nuts character…but not space. I think I’ll give them a buzz and ask where this is going to happen; perhaps they’ve access to a nice big open area?

  71. My $0.02 on the Starbuck front is to not lose all hope just yet – I’m still betting that those mad crazy inventive show-runners have a plan, and that all shall be revealed in time, possibly even before the season finale. But yes, woe and disappointment, for sure.
    (You’re a Firefly viewer as well, yes? “Badger” aka Mark Sheppard will be appearing next week, I know that’s a cameo I can’t wait for 😉 )

  72. Thanks for the update on TSF, I figured you were still in data recovery/hope mode. The other update I’ve been waiting on is the lady in not much but gold shoes, there must be another story there!

  73. The bohus looks so soft and buttery. And fashionable or not, I really dig the ribwarmer.
    What’s this about hats for the homeless?

  74. The bohus looks so soft and buttery. And fashionable or not, I really dig the ribwarmer.
    What’s this about hats for the homeless?

  75. I thought something was wrong with your local coffee shop at first. D’oh! Too much cold medicine.
    The Bohus is beautiful, and I now have yarn in a similiar colo(u)rway to do something sunshiney (after I finish the babysweaters, the socks, the shawl and the other shawl).
    While home with my son on Friday,(blizzard and tonsilectomy) I actually found myself in the basement looking for the paint rollers. Fortunately they appear to have stayed at my daughter’s house, so I didn’t end up painting the living room whatever color is in the nearly full can of paint I found. Planning that stuff is better than doing it spur-of-the-moment. I hate the color of the living room. Nearly any color would be better.

  76. there’s no way she is dead for real. she’s either a cylon, or something is up. what kind of destiny was that otherwise?

  77. Love the ribwarmer, so much I may have to make one. LOVE the fact that you’ll be in Petaluma in June even more! The last (and only) time I met you I was in Los Altos when I asked you to knit a few incorrect stitches into my sock. I’ll have to think up something else now. I’m so psyched you’re coming to the Bay area again!

  78. Oh Yarn Harlot, I knew, just _knew_ you were good people….you’re a Battlestar fan too! 😀 Poor Starbuck, is she crazy? Is she a Cylon? (maybe one of the final 5?) Dun dun dah, stay tuned for more next week! hahaha

  79. re: 8, um, ARG! I still haven’t watched my Tivoed episode yet! *cries*
    (I am very excited you’re coming to Petaluma, and to my husband’s old job, no less — you’ll LOVE the town and the store, I promise you.)

  80. I’m crossing my needles for the technology muses to smile on you, so that you don’t have to worry with a Plan B for the TSF thing. I could send you again the email I’ve sent you in December 31st regarding my donation to Médecins sans frontières, but I don’t want to mess up your plans and disorganize you even the littlest bit more, so I’ll simply be here waiting for your instructions…

  83. You also might consider giving hats to a local elementary school. Lots of those kids are low income and very disadvantaged. Many parents struggle to put food on the table, let alone buy adequate clothing for winter.
    Just a thought!

  85. Why?? Why did you have to say something about Starbuck? I don’t watch BSG until 2 days after the show airs, when iTunes finally posts it so I can get it downloaded. I had heard someone was going to die this season, but I hoped it was just the writers pulling our leg like they so often do…not Starbuck! Where is half of every season’s storyline going to go? Without the Lee/Kara tension? It’s like a Joss Whedon show/movie. WHY?!?!?

  86. My girls and I did a While You Were Out for DH (I can’t believe it’s been a couple of years already) on a long weekend around Father’s Day, I think (our bedroom, so it was kind of for me, too) — after they’d done one for me (the stairwell) on Mother’s Day. It was a blast.
    Isn’t the Rib Warmer so simple in its magic? Kinda like EZ was, herself, I suppose.

  87. I am still kicking myself for not coming to see you in Cambridge last year, but I couldn’t get the time off work – this year, I will take as much time as I need, PLEASE tell Jayme the Wonder Publicist that the knitters of New England NEED you to come back!
    I wish I could make it to New York….:( I’ll have to send a hat instead.

  88. Hey!! What about us loyal fans in Maine? Are you coming to Portland at least??
    Mary

  89. It’s my opinion that Starbuck Is NOT dead, but has been thrown into some sort of vortex & will end up finding the way to earth, because she IS the chosen one & she will show up on the deck of Galactica someitme in the future and be able to lead everyone to earth. Or something like that. I don’t believe she is dead! They can’t do that to Apollo! Or us! —-> By the by—the Bohus looks awesome!

  90. I beg to differ. The RIBWARMER IS the height of fashion–what could possibly be more fashionable???? It is timeless, classic and perfect in every way. I plan to make one as soon as I finish my husband’s Dale sweater. Then, I will wear the ribwarmer, feeling very, very striking and classic, until my death!!

  91. Dear Harlot…Please come back to Albuquerque! I hope your wonder publicist can add our city to your list of stops. If not, maybe Spokane WA or Coeur d’Alene ID?…it would give me a chance to go on a family vacation and maybe blow up my MIL’s coffee pot for a change (talk about your revenge fantasies)!

  92. Dear Harlot…Please come back to Albuquerque! I hope your wonder publicist can add our city to your list of stops. If not, maybe Spokane WA or Coeur d’Alene ID?…it would give me a chance to go on a family vacation and maybe blow up my MIL’s coffee pot for a change (talk about your revenge fantasies)!

  93. I am in a state of denial about Starbuck. Maybe she will turn out to be one of the five? Or magically transended somehow? She can’t be gone, she has a special destiny. And, is that anything like Navin Johnson’s special purpose?

  94. I am not daring . . . however, I do not have a problem being an enabler . . .
    The most daring thing I do when my DH is not about, is hiring someone to do the projects that he has on his “to do” list. When the hot water tank tanked, and I got to stay home to let the plumber in to replace it, the service call included the hot water tank, two faucets and an additional something or tother.
    When the service call went out to the guy that was repairing the stove (a free service call by the way since the stove was still under warranty), he got to fix the stove and replace the tubing on the ice maker for our fridge.
    Sears happened to call about extending the warranty on our garage door opener (oh, did the warranty start on that when we bought it (12 months previously) or does it start when it is installed)? Gee, your having a “sale” on installation? See you tomorrow!
    I have a faucet that needs to be fixed but the only way I can get a professional out to do it is if we have a major problem that even my very capable but time strapped hubby cannot or should not undertake.
    Good luck.
    p.s. love the ribwarmer and the Bohus is beyond words.

  96. Nooooo – the link doesn’t work. What happens to Starbuck? Aaargh, stupid Sky, light years behind the rest of the world, and stupid Virgin Media for buying up Telewest, having a bargy with Sky and pulling our beloved Galactica from the airwaves – noooooooo!
    P.S. Nice ribwarmer!

  97. Love the ribwarmer, please post a picture of it being worn. I can’t quite imagine what the armholes would look like. you just rock!

  98. Whaaaat? Something happened to Starbuck? I have to wait until next year to find out 🙁 I am getting the episodes through Netflix because I’m too cheap to shell out the $$ for the episodes on iTunes. Heck, I have to buy yarn, right?
    I like the ribwarmer 🙂

  99. Starbuck has to be back. She must! What else would a cylon help her follow her destiny? To aid her in being fear-less. Besides, before the season is over, one of the final 5 is to be revealed. All a little too easy to predict, but wouldn’t that quite the twist?
    Love the bohus btw. I have yet to do any sort of knitting with colour, you know, besides stripes.

  100. Organization that can’t be accomplished with a box of trash bags, a permanent marker and some duct tape is for people with no imagination. On my mudroom door there’s a homemade sign that reads, “Chaos – it’s not just a Theory anymore.” I’ll remove it when my youngest child leaves home – or maybe if I get divorced, on second thought. Who the heck is Starbuck? And in our family, it’s my DH who surprises me with home improvement projects that he starts while I’m out, which is why I made the divorce comment. You might want to think about that before you go too far with surprising Joe.
    Best of luck, whatever you choose to do and what are you doing up at 1:27 a.m. or is your computer’s clock off?
    Lill

  101. oh, Starbuck… my fiance says he has the eery feeling she’ll do a governator style “I’ll be back” (I live in the other CA, in case it doesn’t show enough). we’ll wait and see.

  102. If we’re coming to the event in NYC, should we just bring the hats with us? I’d volunteer to collect some of them but our house is a bit small. I’m still remembering 88 cases of girl scout cookies filling every nook and cranny when my girls were little.
    Yikes.

  103. Not up on my BSG, obviously. Thanks for not spoiling. Will watch as soon as the kid takes a nap.
    The bohus is BEAUTIFUL, by the way. You know that, but I just wanted to express my 2 cents.

  104. I will happily collect hats. I will send my address in an email. Did I miss the Wedding Photos? I was hoping they would be one of the follow-up items.

  105. Hi Yarn Harlot!
    Love the blog, and delurking to ask a big favor. Could you post a picture of the ribwarmer being modeled? I’ve been wanting to make one (huge EZ fan here), but wonder what it looks like on.
    If you can, great, if not, no problem.
    Thanks!
    xoA

  106. She can’t be a fraking Cylon! (Geez, get hold of yourself, will ya?) This will probably be played out by the time SG-1 comes on for it’s final 10 episodes.
    Bohus is wondermus, and the rib warmer looks like something I could have used a couple of weeks ago.

  108. YOU’RE COMING TO PETALUMA!!!! I’m so excited… Copperfields is pretty small, I’ll swing by and warn them, but I for one will show up early to get a seat. I can’t wait!!!

  109. Caution: Fan mail ahead.
    I have been adoring your blog for a short time now, in fact I keep trying to get my Rob, also a professional writer, to read it, but somehow I can’t seem to convince him to stop his own work for long enough to do anything but perhaps eat and watch Battlestar. Yes, and today I find you watch it too. Dear Stephanie, you are like a kindred Torontonian spirit, and I so look forward to seeing you in Victoria in the Spring.
    Addendum: Can’t help but wonder if my first ever post on a blog is at all related to the terrible report card crisis I am in due to my pathological procrastination. I have almost decided to tender my resignation, rather than finish them.

  110. Mwahhha…when first you blogged a photo of the EZ ribwarmer it totally appeared to be yellow yarn on my screen??? Now I understand why every skein of yarn I order online is totally NOT the color I expected!

  112. And, on the most important note in this post: I’m a little behind in my Battlestar-Galactica-watching, so thanks for not elaborating.

  113. I’m not in NYC, but I would be available to show you around town in Denver when you come (yay!). I don’t know what you have lined up, but I’ve lived here for a few years now and am pretty familiar with the area. I also don’t know if there will be any other out of towners…

  114. OMG. I don’t have cable, so I have to wait for the Season 3 B.G. DVDs. Please don’t say that they killed Starbuck off, I will lose my mind!
    No, wait, please don’t tell me. I…will…wait. Ouch…that’s painful.

  115. Fantastic!!! You’re coming to Sonoma County, the other Wine country!!!!If you want, I’ll pick you up wherever you are and drive you around. If you have the spare time, we have great yarn shops, wineries galore and a few microbreweries, too. I second and third the motion that Copperfields, though a wonderful local chain, is probably too small, unless they have a hidden arena somewhere…
    Saw you at Soar (are you coming this year??)…your talk was wonderfully funny…we spinners are nothing to get nervous about…love your stuff!!

  116. The RW rocks! I continue to have Virtual Yarn Envy–the color is amazing, even in pictures.
    Bohus continues to be gorgeous–glad to hear that all the SS isn’t so boring that it’s not worth knitting. I love that you “improved” the pattern and lucky you, they’ve actually worked out! 🙂 Beware of the next project, you’re due for some knitting humility….

  117. Totally off the subject…
    When are you going to be on Knitty Gritty? My cable company recently started airing the show, and I’m afraid I missed your episode, which would make me very sad.

  119. Wow! Lovely Rib warmer. I love vests and have a collection of them. Sadly, none that I have knit, (hmmmmmm)Ok, next project AFTER the baby sweater is completed. I have to frog a sleeve back a few inches or new grandchild will look like Quasimoto.
    Be careful dear Harlot if you venture out on foot today. I just read a news blurb that said ice falling from tall buildings has put Toronto pedestrians in danger.
    Oh, and to Kathy, the newly outed lurker, tell your husband its too late to be afraid. You already have the disease. Anyone who can whip out 5 dish cloths in a week is beyond redemption/salvation.
    Thou art now a knitterly devotee.
    tee hee!

  121. Nice ribwarmer. That would go well with my Land’s End poster-child fashion look.
    And Starbuck can’t possibly be dead, can she? Can she? I think it’s a trick.

  122. Happy to hear that Jayme is busy booking stops — I know that my bookstore (where I work parttime) in Indiana is talking to Jayme about getting you to come!! Keeping my fingers crossed that we will have you visit us here!
    Jeannie

  123. I TIVOed Galactica last night, now I must go and watch it to see what Starbuck is upto.

  124. GMTA..I just finished a ribwarmer in some homespun yarn from a bit of roving my sister gave me after she visited the MD Sheep and Wool festival. The yarn is a teeny bit scratchy, but it’s a lovely warm knitted thing, if not exactly stylin’
    Judy in MN

  125. So glad that I didn’t read further on Starbuck… must not get spoiled… and I have my SnB tonight… then watch BG… of course my hubby will most likely watch it before and may let it slip when I get home. Would it be wrong to leave work early to watch the show before I got to knit?

  126. dude, there’s no way that starbuck is dead 🙂 all of the dialog points to her being a cylon. “they’re waiting for me on the other side”… the stuff about being prepared for something that her mother prepared her for AND the fact that leoban knew about it all. guaranteed that she wakes up in a bath of goo by the end of the season.
    your knitting’s great also 🙂

  127. hello! I am a New York knitter who also used to volunteer at a Women’s Shelter on the Upper East Side. As such I’d be willing to collect some hats at your event! I might even be down for the yarn crawl hosting duties…
    Tina

  128. I hate to say this, and I hope it isn’t true, but I strongly suspect the whole Starbuck death thing of being the first part in a “Starbuck is really a cylon” plot twist. If that’s the case, I am going to be very disappointed with those writers. Oh, I just looked up and saw the Gleek suspects the same thing. I hope we’re wrong, Gleek.

  129. Battlestar Galactica without Starbuck is something I don’t want to think about. In my opinion it’s not even possible. But, I don’t want her to be a cylon either. That spells dilemma.

  130. I think I’m still in denial about Starbuck. My husband and I didn’t even talk about it when the show was over… I don’t know if it is worse for her to be dead or be a cylon. Both are depressing.
    My daughter and I can’t wait to see you in Pittsburgh! Although my daughter’s excitement is difficult to measure as she is only 3 weeks and 3 days old. 🙂 But I’m sure I’m excited enough for the two of us!

  131. All we could say after last nights BSG was… “that was WEIRD”… probably still in denial as well.
    PLEASE come to Southern California too!! Preferably San Diego but La La land would work too 🙂

  132. I have the biggest “While You Were Out” fantasy. In it, I go to the Taos Wool Festival and when I come back I actually have a bed that has a headboard and coordinated bedroom furniture. And it doesn’t cost me anything and I didn’t have to do any work. That’s why it is called a fantasy, I guess.
    We are so the Universal Studios family. The living room looks great but we go way down hill from there. I’m surprised the back of the house isn’t propped up by 2 x 4’s.
    When are you coming to Arizona?

  133. Any chance you’ll come back to Texas?? I missed you last summer in Austin (my home town)because I was on vacation! Come in October when it’s not unbearably hot. There are lots of knitters in Dallas (where I live). We’d love to see you! P.S. I also vote not to worry about organization. As far as I can tell, you are one amazing woman.

  134. Disorganized? no way. not with all the amazing things that you do.
    I’m really sad that I won’t be able to see you in NYC! I was planning on going but my mom can’t get the days off of work to drive down with me from Massachusetts… and I can’t drive myself become I am 15 and don’t even have a permit yet :P. I’ll be there in spirit, though, kay?
    And about that yarn crawl- I noticed a link on Ambercake’s blog (a different Amber, not me) to a list of yarn shops in NYC. it should be the most recent entry here: http://ambercake.blogspot.com/
    Maybe that will help with the organizing?
    -Amber
    p.s. I better get to watch you guys on the news up here in MA, so get noticed!

  135. I have to agree that organization can be overrated. I have always considered myself an organized person. I have snippets of yarn with the little tags off the balls in ziplock bags in my stash box, so that I have samples and dye lot numbers.
    Last night I got four inches away from an end of a sock and realized I was going to need more yarn. Naturally, that was the only sample with the card containing the dye lot number I coudn’t find. I went crazy for an hour before I found it. In a knitting bag (one of many). Which did me no good because the store was out of it and I am waiting for them to order it for me.
    So I wouldn’t beat yourself up too much, organization is highly overrated.

  136. June 7th in Petaluma? Hmmm. If I stand out on the highway I can probably get a ride north with someone. Will it be in the evening? You’ll be so close, but that’s a Thursday. Oof. Will work on this and will hold onto the donation hat just in case…

  137. Devestated. I am devastated.. yes about Starbuck but mostly that you will be in Ann Arbor.. just a few miles from me and I will be in my classroom reviewing forces.
    Not fair!

  138. A rib warmer may not be runway material (but who wears that stuff anyway!?). However, any knitter worth his/her salt will know it makes a statement that you are a true, true knitter. You know who EZ is afterall.

  140. I thought I was the worlds most unorganized knitter/house keeper mother! Never mind I spent half the morning looking for the water bill and my dye book. I didn’t find either and hubby hasn’t seen them.
    I love the vest. The color is great! The sweater, OMG! It is 70 here. Where did winter go?

  141. What? What about Starbuck?????????????????You are freaking me out, I missed the last episode!

  142. I’ll be watching Battlestar after the kids go to bed tonight. Love that DVR. Hey, I watched the original series when I was a kid – course I would never let my little kids watch this one! I have a hat ready to go. In the old series, Starbuck was presumed dead for a while (or was that the books). And Starbuck relationshipwise flip back and forth between Athena and Cassiopea. I had a crush on Richard Hatch.

  143. Your rib warmer is lovely. It’s everything I imagine a rib warmer to be, and you love it – what could be better? Please, Stephanie, could you let your wonder-publicist know this: THERE ARE KNITTERS SOUTH OF NYC AND WE ALSO WANT TO SEE THE YARN HARLOT IN ACTION in person!!! How about some stops in North Carolina, Virginia (east of DC), Tennessee, or some other place I can get to within an 8-hour drive??? Believe me, there are knitters in the South that you have not tapped. Do you need names of yarn shops? What? Just tell me and I’ll do whatever I can to help you see more of the South – USA. Phew, I feel better now. Thanks.

  144. I thought I was the worlds most unorganized knitter/house keeper mother! Never mind I spent half the morning looking for the water bill and my dye book. I didn’t find either and hubby hasn’t seen them.
    I love the vest. The color is great! The sweater, OMG! It is 70 here. Where did winter go?

  145. Yeah, Stephanie is coming to Petaluma!!! I can get there in reasonable amounts of time!

  146. Organisation is relative. If you feel out of control, you can always do something about it. If you feel other people feel you’re out of control… screw ’em.
    I can never watch BSG now. I know too much.

  147. Can I get Jayme-the-Wonder-Publicist’s email address?? I want to offer her like, knitted socks or something to entice her to send you to Houston. Colorado is too far away.

  148. My sisters say I’m too organized . I guess I am as I spend an undue length of time organizing things to the point that I don’t actually get around to doing the project I intended to do as I tired out from it all. On the other hand if I’m not organized I spend the rest of the day trying to find some object that is misplaced. No wonder I don’t get as much knitting done as i’d like to. there has to be a happy medium someplace. haha. Stay the way you are Stephanie at leas you gt the knitting done.
    The Bojus is breathtaking ane I’m in LOVE with the rib warmer –HAVE to get the book

  149. I am so happy to see you will be coming back to Northern California.
    I agree with all the San Franciscan’s. Why can’t you stop here?
    With global warming I’ve gotten burned at Dolores Park in June.
    Once I find out what time you will be in Peteluma I will be on the 80 heading north. Now to figure out how to get to Copperfields from the bus stop.
    I am also watching BSC on DVD and have not seen any of season 3. So I will try to forget all that I have read here.
    Your Ribwarmer is beautiful. I think I need to knit one for my mother.

  151. I am a social NYC knitter and I actually have the Thursday of your event off from work. Sign me up for volunteering. I wrote as much to your wonder publicist the day you announced this plan, and it’s still true.
    I can have hats sent to my home address too. We have door staff here to accept packages and I have an old but reliable station wagon to drive them where they need to go.

  152. hi there – I’d love to help with knitted hats. I live in Scotland and was wondering if you would like to see any hats knitted over here sent to NYC or should we think about organising for Scottish charities? I’d be glad to help and I know of three knitting groups within about 60 miles who could possibly be involved as well as our two rare but lovely yarn shops in the area. What do you think about being global?!

  153. I live around corner from Dolores Park and it’s beautiful and warm today! I would love to see you in San Francisco, but am happy to go to Petaluma if that is where you will be. Somebody must warn Jayme the publicist, however, about the challenging logistics. The store has been warned already because my sister sent them an email to “please expect 300 or more to attend.” (We went to Los Altos last year). She doesn’t mince words!

  154. I have not watched BG yet (it’s Tivoed). Please tell me that Cara was not the “top 7” character who dies!!
    I love Starbuck.

  155. While I haven’t the slightest idea who or what Starbuck is (I thought you were talking about coffee at first) I do know that Petaluma has one of the very best yarn shops I know of. Don’t miss Knitterly – it’s within walking distance of Copperfield’s and it’s terrific! You’re on my calendar for June 7th…..

  156. I can’t wait to find out what the surprise for Joe is. I’ll be sure to find some time to knit a hat to bring to Victoria with me. The Knit Out weekend comes right before our birthday so I’m hoping to find some fun things in the vendor booths as a present to myself.

  157. Starbuck can’t be DEAD dead. It just doesn’t make sense to the show. All that character development in this episode alone had to be leading to something. The “You have a destiny that’s been written” thing doesn’t fit with “Oh, I just died… no purpose, no battle won/humanity saved thing, I just got all distracted and crashed into a planet.”

  158. You’re not the only one who’s upset about Starbuck. I had to put my knitting down for the last few minutes of the show. I have such a girl crush on Katee Sackhoff.
    But I don’t think she’s really dead. She can’t be.

  159. I love the ribwarmer vest. In fact this reminded me that I wanted to make one if I can ever get around to dyeing the yarn I want to use.

  160. Stephanie,
    I can accept donations and then get them to a shelter in East Harlem. Hats can be sent to my school: Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, 280 Pleasant Avenue, New York, NY 10029. I will also get my students in on the act.
    Also, if you are looking for volunteers on the day of … the only way I can make it to the event is if I am running a trip or … a service event. Yes, I am volunteering my students as hat collectors on the evening of the event. If you ask my Principal nicely I bet she will let us do it.

  161. What I like about the photos of the Bohus (more so the last post, maybe) is how soft the knitted-up wool looks. So it’ll be like you’re wearing a halo. Your plans for Represent sound great. I am accepting that us in the far, far West (e.g. Hawaii) will come forth and meet you in any one of various interesting mainland venues (after all, we don’t do much with wool here, and sock yarn is a little hard to find, imagine that). We do knit hats, however, and some of us will send them to the Big A. Thanks so much for the lovely green garter vest, which looks positively trendy (in a good way). I just discovered EZ through her Almanac, which reads like nothing I’d ever seen before. Sort of like sitting elbow to elbow over cups of coffee. Ahhhhh!

  162. OMG!!! (Insert squealing with joy and jumping around here) I can’t believe you’re coming to Petaluma. I’m so excited I need to call every knitter I know right now and tell them. Hooray!!! Shall I greet you at Copperfield’s with a cold locally-brewed beer?

  163. So, if we save our hats for our local event (and believe me, I’m jumping for joy to see you locally), wouldn’t that diminish the “show” of support in NYC? I’d be happy to knit TWO hats – one for NYC and one for local….

  164. I sent cooperfields in Petlaums an email, told them they should brace themselves… and that there were now no excuses.. they have been duly warned.

  167. I suppose Cooperfields should start thinking outside the already bigger box they are already thinking outside of.
    I live 400 miles to the South, and am thinking of this as an EASY MUST-DO road trip!!!! THE HARLOT will be SO CLOSE!!! I know I cannot be alone, and expect to have at least a few passengers, not to mention all the people we will pick up along the way holding up cardboard signs “WILL KNIT for RIDE”.

  168. I wonder if the sidebar total is already more than $500,000? December 26th was a long time ago and lots of people have sent $$$ since then (don’t look at me like that, we’ve both been wrong before, remember).
    I’ve become more brazen about asking for donations “in return” for the Bohus translations – I figure fundraising for TSF is not the time to be circumspect…

  169. Hi,
    Don’t worry about Starbuck. She’ll be back. I sort of wonder what form she’ll take. One of those ethereal beings, with flowing appendages, like the Stargate beings? Or will she appear as her usual self, with glowing eyes? A Starbuck that doesn’t like sex? A Starbuck that never argues? A Starbuck that can shoot ravening beams a destructive light, from the palms of her hands? The mind boggles.

  170. I think the rib warmer looks great. A very clever construction indeed.
    Hey I noticed that the latest book’s cover has been updated. Much better now!

  172. Hi Stephanie!
    I might get to see you in nyc after all!! fingers crossed.. i might be getting a wonderful free trip out there.. kori will be on vacation and friends need me at a meeting in PA on the 20th.. hugs safe trip.. and talk to you soon..
    ugh i can’t remember my url.. silly me.. karola happy oh so happy in arizona! 🙂

  173. Organisation? Sigh. I signed up for a class titled “How to organize your Life”, and promptly missed the first meeting. My kids accuse me of having joined a cult ( flylady.net ), whose mission statement seems to be “Inner peace and happiness through a fairly clean and uncluttered home”. The days that I follow the cult routine – 15 minutes of concentrated domestic effort, then drop everything and play (in my case sit and knit), I get lots of work and lots of knitting done. So much so that I seem to be running out of UFO’s. Can’t have that, though, need to go make new ones.

  174. Who cares about organization? You’re coming to Petaluma! YAAAY! That’s only a 40 minute drive . . . and Copperfield’s is right around the corner from Knitterly, one of my favorite yarn stores. I’m in HEAVEN!

  175. Organisation? Sigh. I signed up for a class titled “How to organize your Life”, and promptly missed the first meeting. My kids accuse me of having joined a cult ( flylady.net ), whose mission statement seems to be “Inner peace and happiness through a fairly clean and uncluttered home”. The days that I follow the cult routine – 15 minutes of concentrated domestic effort, then drop everything and play (in my case sit and knit), I get lots of work and lots of knitting done. So much so that I seem to be running out of UFO’s. Can’t have that, though, need to go make new ones.

  176. June 7? You’re killing me. My future in-laws live in Petaluma, and Knitterly is one of my favorite LYSs, and Copperfields is an awesome bookstore, and I’m going to be stuck here in Reno, NV because we’re getting married two days later.
    Cruel, cruel twist of fate!

  177. SHEWWWWW!!! I had visions of Jayme under two tons of hats trying to haul them around NYC…..the logistics was mind blowing…..Will bring my hat to Ann Arbor. Love the rib warmer, love the bohus, hate too much organization, makes life too predictable.

  178. Kara Thrace is not dead! She ejected at the last possible moment and Lee just didn’t see her… right? I mean, why would they kill her and let Tice live? He’s such a jerk.
    And I take it as a personal afront that you dare to challenge me for the title of Least Organized Woman. I have claimed this title for quite some time, but I can’t remember exactly how long.

  179. I was bawling like a ginormous baby last night thanks to BSG. I know they’d never get rid of Starbuck for good. Right???

  180. Happy news in the war against the underestimation of knitters-
    My husband is in India right now on a doctors without borders trip. He has strict instructions: mention knitters without borders and the astonishing sum of money that we raised frequently and to anyone and everyone who will listen, or else don’t come home.
    So, at the very least, the India office will know of our might!

  181. Well, Steph, after over 20 years of marriage, six apartments and one mid-60s ranch-style, decoratively-challenged house, my husband, Jim, paint cans and rollers and I were finally in the same room together two weeks ago. I always wait until he is on a business trip to paint anything larger than my big toenail because the house is simply not big enough. I also wait until he is gone to clean closets and have garage sales as he got the packrat gene BIGTIME. Good luck and I’m sure Joe will either love it or get used to it.

  182. Hmmm… Petaluma, eh? I wonder if I can make it 280 miles with an infant on a Thursday… I probably should have *finished* watching BSG before reading through the comments… Oh well.

  183. I just started reading your blog about a month ago and now I know I’ve found a kindred spirit because you sound as tore up as I am about Starbuck. And I’m thrilled that there are knitting BSG fans out there, given all the comments posted. I work in a research lab full of men, and no one watches, let alone understands my obsession with BSG (or knitting). You’ve made my world less lonely. See you at the Tattered Cover in Denver, CO. My hats are ready.

  184. Tell me it is not true. You are going to Petaluma, and I just moved out of Petaluma!!! How about a stop in Boston, ppplease…

  185. The Bohus looks great, so does the rib warmer. True classics.
    How about a trip to Virginia Beach, VA to show the power of knitting?

  186. I will let my friend Julie know that you are coming to “The Looma” … here in Portland, we are glad they’ve booked you for the “real” Powell’s. I mean, really. What WERE they thinking last year?

  187. Hey, Steph… with about two weeks to go, I am trying to figure out my plans for my days in NYC. Are we just doing stuff (like the picture in Central Park) on March 22nd? Should I block out that day for all Yarn Harlot stuff? Or should I plan things in the morning to keep myself entertained and amused while waiting for the big party?

  188. Steph, you may not have a carpenter or a plan … but you DO have your brother. As I recall, he is most helpful in these types of situations.
    And organized? Over-rated.
    Cheers!

  189. What can I do to explain to Jayme the wonder publicist that California is a really reallly really big state? And that there is actually a whole southern half of the state, chock full of knitters, that would love to recieve a harlot visit? I’m sure Northern California appreciates all the attention received thus far but…..??????
    Can I get shout outs on the comments from other SoCal knitters?

  190. I would love it if you could come back to Los Altos! Hollis at Full Thread Ahead had everything planned so well that it would be fabulous to do it again!

  191. Seen on a T-shirt: “Organized people are just too lazy to look for things.” ‘Nuff said.
    Rib warmer good.

  192. No, that’s just it. Starbuck will “wake up” as a new “model” of herself (one of the 5)…. Now, that’s destiny!
    Isn’t Helo gobs cuter than Apollo?
    Petaluma is good, but can I drive in one day to Portland?

  193. OAKLAND!!!! Come to Oakland, CA. You have to land at the airport here, anyway. Although, I think you have outgrown the size of my lys…how many chairs, again? Also, just FYI, you need three coats of paint foe red or dark green, so work with more moderate colors since you’re on a time crunch.

  194. While I am NOT an NYC knitter (much to my chagrine), one of the Mason-Dixon Knitting gals is. *shrugs* Worth shooting out an email to her, right? Just a suggestion. Wish I could make the event in NYC…

  195. this is quite funny, reading the BSG comments – I’m leaning toward Kara as one of the final 5, but everything the show does seems to be so unexpected that I’m happy to be totally wrong. E.g., I was SO sure Lee and Kara would leave their spouses, or Lee would at least not be happy. Yes, Helo is gobs cuter, but he lacks the *pain* that is so very magnetic.
    Oh, the Bohus is beautiful! And so is the rib warmer!

  196. Have you tried the 18-year old GlenFiddich? I love the 15 year old Glenlivet! I’d love to be a volunteer in Portland or Petaluma as Knitterly is one Tanglewood Fiber Creations new accounts.
    Organization can be learned or practiced, creativity can’t. Give me creativity any-day. Trish

  197. Really? you come across as a very organized person. Isn’t perception interesting?
    I don’t know anything about the modern Battlestar. I used to have such a crush on the old Starbuck. Ahhh. Dirk Benedict. I think the Cylons were a pretty scary bunch for a 4 yr old. But I always wanted one of those barky litlle robot dogs…
    Bohus continues to look fabulous. Your rib warmer is great. I love the nameless, numberless colourway.
    You know you are going to have to share pics of your version of While You Were Out right? We can wait ’til Joe has seen it though. You know we’ll be here waiting.

  200. I can assist with yarn shops tours, especially in the outer borough of Staten Island (three shops), Smiley’s in Queens (famous discount place), and my regular haunts in midtown, Stitches East and The Yarn Connection. Let me know! Toni in New York City…

  201. I work in New York not far from FIT and would be happy to accept hats that are mailed or dropped off. Email me if you want to send hats nanagormleyDOTgmailDOTcom.
    Also,if you’re coming in from out-of-town and you need any questions answered about NYC, I’ll do my best to help you.
    Kathy

  202. Ok, so it’s early in the a.m. and I’m an idiot. The correct email address is nanagormleyATgmailDOTcom
    (Groan)
    Kathy

  204. re Gigi yesterday at 8:32pm… flylady.net whose mission statement seems to be “Inner peace and happiness through a fairly clean and uncluttered home”.
    I, too, have joined Flylady, It’s FREE! and gives me time to enjoy my knitting without mounds of clutter calling to me to DO something… –Marg

  205. I was devastated about Starbuck too. But upon watching the episode a second time, I happened to look up from my knitting just in time to see her hand was on the eject lever. She was definitely about to eject herself. Also, I think she could be one of the final five. Or maybe a human/cylon hybrid? Maybe her mother had a reason to think she was special.
    I think this is the best show on tv. I’ve been getting all the old seasons on netflicks but it is going too slow for me. Unfortunately it is over $100 to get the series thus far on dvd. If I had it, I would be watching it everyday! Tense knitting, but one of the few shows you could watch more than once!

  206. Oooo, Wisconsin Sheep & Wool would be AWESOME. As it is, I’m planning on making it to Oak Brook…it’s only a few hours away and the day away from the almost-2 yo and almost-4 yo will be a bit of a treat.

  207. I guess I will knit a hat for Victoria, since you’re not coming to Seattle (sniff, sniff, WHINE).
    But don’t worry about Starbuck. I bet ya dollars to donuts that she is the one who discovers that she is a Cylon.
    But enough about Battlestar Galactica, what do you think about David Tennant (sigh) as the new Doctor Who. I am in love with that little Scottish Hottie! But I think he needs handknit socks – they film in Wales, and it is often VERY cold there. And those Converse high-tops are not much on the insulation!

  208. I’m loved the Starbuck character, though the thing with Apollo was getting dragged out too much (IMHO). I’m under the impression that the actress wanted to leave. I learned to my surprise that the tatoos that I thought were part of her marriage are at least partly real.
    So she may be really dead, but it could be a Cylon final five kind of thing, or a one of the Gods kind of thing too. But she won’t be a regular anymore. One problem I had was a person who could crashland and find a Cylon ship and learn to fly it and save herself, would just give up and let herself be destroyed?
    I think the writers have done a terrific job of taking the old series and many of its ideas and twist them into something new and interesting.
    Ironically, Starbuck said ‘I make my own destiny’, and in a way she did. And was the raider real or not?

  209. you might really like the old sci fi series “Space Above and Beyond” it only lasted a year, we loved it, just found it is out on DVD

  210. Only another coffee junkie could understand the chill that your comment about Starbuck sent through my heart. I didn’t notice there was no “s” and clicked on the link with trepidation: would I find out something awful enough that I would finally have to give up patronizing the monster corporation’s outposts?
    I feel as jumpy as if I had consumed multiple venti lattes with extra shots!

  211. Only another coffee junkie could understand the chill that your comment about Starbuck sent through my heart. I didn’t notice there was no “s” and clicked on the link with trepidation: would I find out something awful enough that I would finally have to give up patronizing the monster corporation’s outposts?
    I feel as jumpy as if I had consumed multiple venti lattes with extra shots!

  212. Only another coffee junkie could understand the chill that your comment about Starbuck sent through my heart. I didn’t notice there was no “s” and clicked on the link with trepidation: would I find out something awful enough that I would finally have to give up patronizing the monster corporation’s outposts?
    I feel as jumpy as if I had consumed multiple venti lattes with extra shots!

  213. Only another coffee junkie could understand the chill that your comment about Starbuck sent through my heart. I didn’t notice there was no “s” and clicked on the link with trepidation: would I find out something awful enough that I would finally have to give up patronizing the monster corporation’s outposts?
    I feel as jumpy as if I had consumed multiple venti lattes with extra shots!

  214. Ack! Our friend TiVo’ed BSG for us because we were watching the History channel special that night… Oh I wish I hadn’t read the comments! We are hoping to watch the episode tomorrow… Man, she’s my favorite character. Damn.
    Nice ribwarmer. I especially like the name. I’m working on a pair of silk socks for my friend who is “allergic” to wool (WTF?!)

  215. P.S. Late in the comments but I too loved Starbuck. I often wonder why shows kill off good characters and are later amazed when the show goes kerflooey.
    I still miss Dr. Greene on ER. 🙁

  216. SPM — the Ribwarmer is totally growing on me and would be very nice to wear. I am so glad to hear they got you signed up for William Mitchell Law School (the auditorium, that is) for your book tour visit here in St. Paul. I will see you there!
    And good progress on the Bohus!

  217. *$^&%&%*$%^&#@@@!! Starbuck.
    That’s all I’m going to say about that.
    I would be happy to recieve hats/scarves/gloves etc. If you did decide to give to a charity in Toronto…
    I have a soft spot for covenant house myself
    http://www.covenanthouse.on.ca

  219. Seriously. Starbuck can’t be gone…they wouldn’t do that to us, would they?! Although, the SciFi network has been known to do evil things…like cancel good shows like Farscape. I’m hoping for the seat ejecter idea.

  221. Wow–the ribwarmer looks very fun to make…sometimes our love of a garment is proportional to how much we feel we’re cheating on/courting with physics/engineering to construct it! As for most disorganized? Hee hee hee…honey, you’re such a slacker in the disorganized field…come to my house, I’m a master…

  222. Starbuck is going to be back. She has a destiny. I just really hope part of her destiny isn’t being a Cylon. We already had that storyline.

  223. i don’t have to “represent!” i found out you’re going to be in St. Paul, Minnesota, which is a 5 hour drive, and hubby said i could go! *does the happy dance*
    i can’t wait! (it’s a birthday present!)

  224. Starbuck…Starbuck…
    (Just watched the ep now that it finally became available on iTunes, but I have been so afraid since you posted this. Clearly the fear was justified, so I am going to just stick my fingers in my ears and cover my eyes and go “lalalalalalala” and pretend that that hour of television didn’t just happen.)

  225. i’m sure a thousand people have already said so, but i’d be more than willing to receive hats. i live on long island, but i plan on traveling to the FIT event and … as i live on long island, that means i have a HOUSE and a PORCH so that makes delivering mail mad easy 🙂 lemme know, i wanna help however i can!
    through.the.looking@gmail.com

  226. ohh your floor looks remarkably similar to the floor in our first house but much better quality (probably not helped by the fact that my husband found the one patch that had rampant woodworm and fell straight through the floor-boards the day after we moved in – somehow the surveyor missed the woodworm!!!!!! (but despite the fact taht he was up to his waist in floor I couldn’t help him out – I was laughing too much… a case of either laugh or cry!
    I love your ribwarmer – the colours are gorgeous!!!!! one more thing on a potential todo list!

  228. Good LORD I am amazed at how many of us Petalumans are reading this knitting blog 🙂 The folks at Copperfields are in for a treat!
    I hope to be there to see their faces!

  229. Ok, I just have to ask. How on earth does one *use* a birth ball?? I simply can’t wrap my brain around that one.

  230. I saw Starbuck’s hand reaching for the ejection release ( or whatever it’s called ) so maybe she’s drifting around in space again.
    Goodness it took Battlestar Galactica get me out of lurkdom.

  231. You use a birthball in many of the same ways that you would use it as an exercise ball. You can stretch over it, lean on it, sit on it- whatever is comfortable. TONS AND TONS of medical research has shown that the absolute most difficult, painful and long taking way to give birth is the way that is the most common in North American hospitals- on your back with your feet up in stirrups. That position is chosen here, despite all of the literature that it has negative outcomes for both mother and baby, because it is the easiest delivery position for PHYSICIANS. Further proof, if you needed any, that it really is a man’s world.

  232. I don’t have the time to read if someone else mentioned it but…about Starbuck? 3 words: Six year contract. And I have a theory I might blog about in a bit…but my oh my there were tears.

  234. Petaluma – Yeah! It’s my new hometown for the last year (after 12 years on punishment in Bakersfield and Modesto, 2 years on punishment in Las Vegas).
    Petaluma- the place where I picked up my knitting needles, crochet hook and writing pad after many years absence. There was a wonderful woman named Caroline (late of Philato, now the sockpixie in Boston) who reignited my inspiration.
    Now I am joyfully knitting and crocheting at work meetings, any place I have time. Started a knitting circle at the wonderful Aqus Cafe (Saturdays 12;30-3) 2 months ago. Now there is a sister group on Tuesday afternoons at the same place.
    Petaluma is definitely home to many wonderful knitters (many many circles in our area). Your agent is very smart– Sonoma County is a pretty place to visit!
    Yours,
    Mimi aka the Snap Diva

  235. Please come and visit us at Knitterly, one block down from Copperfields in Petaluma, we will have Trish of Tanglewood fibers on hand with her handspun Cashmere that is to die for.
    The Rib Warmer Rocks!

  236. Hi Stephanie,
    I had to write you and tell you how much I appreciate your knitting humor!!!I have been knitting since I was a teenager and only got competent as an adult.I am also a midwife who attends home births and knitting gets me thorough many a long birth.I really enjoy your books and your yarn wisdom.
    I always called myself a knitting slut and than your book came along.I also spin and hope to weave one day(why is beyond me)
    Thank you for putting it out there
    PS.you can pull mohair apart…the trick is to put it in the freezer 1st.It will help it release.

  237. hey! I’m in New York, and I go to FIT, so I would be happy to help with the hats. Drop me a line if you need some more volunteers. =D

  238. The only thing that will keep me from being at Copperfield’s in Petaluma is my daughter’s spring school concert. I would love, love, love to see you, but if I miss the spring concert I will be disowned as a mother. Can’t have that, now can we.

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