Wednesday, December 29, 2010
A couple of weekends ago, I met my friend Anna at an old factory in Greenpoint to take some pictures of my next sweater design on the roof and in a photogenically run-down stairwell. I happened to have worn my Twenty Ten cardigan over there and she was kind enough to take a couple of [...]
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Last Wednesday, I was in the car with my mom, heading from Webs to Vermont, where she was going to leave me to spend a couple of days with my brother and sister-in-law. We were taking the scenic route through the mountains, avoiding the tedium that is the Mass Pike, when we ascended to an [...]
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
This is for an experiment I’m not quite sure about yet. It’s going to be either fantastic or hilariously awful, no possible middle ground. Will report back later this week. edited to add: It’s not an undergarment. Geez.
Monday, December 13, 2010
I’ve had a tab on my browser open to Reverb10 for over a week now without making the time to post about it, but I have been mulling over some of the questions it’s posed. Described as “an annual event and online initiative to reflect on your year and manifest what’s next,” the site posts [...]
Sunday, December 12, 2010
A morning run in the rain. Black bean soup with roasted kabocha squash in the fridge. Knitting on the couch. Cookie ingredients on hand. A Visit From the Goon Squad ready to be picked up from the library.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
I don’t often salivate over other people’s kitchens in magazines or online. The long-term renter in me often envies functional elements of them, sure — copious counter space, deep drawers, big sinks, natural light — but I never really look at kitchens and covet. Until I saw this one on The Kitchn the other day.It’s [...]
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
As most of my readers know at this point, I have a little jewelry business. I comb through deadstock chains and vintage plastic whatnots and old chandelier pieces and put them together to make necklaces that I would be happy to wear if no one bought them. I opened an etsy shop about two and [...]
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
This morning, I was working on the buttonbands for my next design and lining up a photographer to shoot it this weekend (since Carolyn has the nerve to live somewhere I don’t) and thinking about locations and how I want to style it and talking to my tech editor about when I’ll have the pattern [...]
Thursday, December 2, 2010
I finished plying all of the wool/silk tweed over the weekend and skeined and washed it. I was a little surprised to have ended up with only 1057 yards. Somehow, it hadn’t occurred to me that a three-ply yarn would yield fewer yards than a two-ply. It’s still enough for a sweater for me though, [...]