‘A Tangled Skein’ Archives
A short break »
Okay, don't expect to see much of me for a couple of weeks, all. I've got my visa! Yay! So now I'm getting my business affairs in order, my personal affairs in order, sending out the last few boxes of my stuff out to the UK, and readying myself to immigrate. Cross your fingers for me! I'm hoping that the process goes smoothly. I'm headed home to California yet again, this time to meet up with my business partner, although [...]
The Truth(s) About Swatches and other news »
Okay, if I'm being honest, swatches annoy me. Sure, I know, they're supposed to be wonderful and helpful and a learning and spiritual process, blah blah blah, but frankly, if I've got a pattern or idea in mind and yarn and needles in hand, what I really want to be doing is knitting the latter into the former. I don't actually want to be knitting a square of a fabric up, washing it, blocking it, and hoping I don't need to [...]
More traveling. »
Okay, it's really hard to keep the blog up to date when I'm not knitting and while I'm traveling, mainly because I haven't had time to knit. At all. This is very aggravating, but my mantra is: "family and friends, more important. family, friends, more important. No, really, family and friends really are more important than knitting." And no one pays me to blog, I hate to say it, but it's true. Right now, getting my stuff [...]
Update…about time. »
Okay, I know almost every blogger says this so often, so pardon if this bores: so I haven't gotten back to a regular posting schedule, obviously. Sorry...! So. Things go apace. Working on the green beaded Artyarns jacket. (Pictures to follow later.) The trouble with this is that I need to be able to concentrate to work on this, and that hasn't been something I've been able to do for a bit. So I've got about half the [...]
WIPs or about to be »
One of my sisters is always feeling hot. Not too many knitted things for her, I'm afraid, although she did ask for a few coffee cup cozies for her birthday last year. The other sister is a Latin ballroom competitive dancer -- zero body fat, and she's always cold. ANYthing knitted is great for her. The two of us went into ImagiKnit the other day and came out with a lot of yarn that she wants made into things. The first [...]
San Francisco »
You know, regardless of what else goes on in my life, I'm aware that the city where I was born is always there: my heart hides San Francisco in at least one small corner of it at all times. This is the view out my study window at the moment. I've sublet a lovely flat for the month while the owner is traveling. The flat is filled with art, and also contains a dog named Tashi, a Tibetan Terrier. It's on the third floor and [...]
Prize Pack! (and no new posts for a week) »
Well, at long last, here it is! I've managed to finally finish up all the projects I had hanging fire since Christmas, but of course the important one right now is the prize for our Contest and KAL for Knit A Square. So here it is: Included is a ginormous knitting satchel in a sturdy blue and white brocade pattern canvas, with a snaps-open-snaps-shut frame that keeps everything in place, even if the bag tips [...]
A week in review »
Whew! I'm trying to get ready for a three month trip to the States to mothball up my life there, get a lot of business matters settled and started up. This last week was the first of my two weeks to get everything done. So for the first time in the two years I've been traveling, I broke out my calendar program and started making lists again. I can still do it. I can still get things done in a timely manner. I can still [...]
Another week, another square! »
Wow, what a fortnight it's been. Between news about health problems, the earthquake in Haiti, and other personal matters, I thought I was just going through a rather depressing couple of weeks and that it was just me, but after talking to a few friends, it seems like many of us have been having a rather hard time of it. Hope that this isn't true for you, but if it is, I hope you're doing better now too, and if you're not, I [...]
I hate cancer & other news »
These days, it seems like the faster I move, the more I get behind...the converse is not true, though, as if I take it easy...I just get behind faster! That's not fair somehow. The belated Christmas knitting is being set aside (hopefully for a short time, because I really must finish them). I've been working on a couple of chemo caps for friends who are currently undergoing radical chemo and radiation and [...]
