I have a habit of disappearing. I’m no Houdini, I promise you that. I might exist on a social media blitz high – posting on my Facebook group, Ravelry, Twitter, yada – for a couple weeks and then disappear for awhile. That’s the nature of my existence, for now anyways, due by in large to [...]
Archive for August, 2010
August 24 2010
Birthday Round-Up
The birthday festivities are rather prolonged in this family because so many people have birthdays near one another. In August there are three, so we wind up having joint parties. This tends to carry out my birthday through the month. We just had the birthday round-up this past weekend. And I now have a matching [...]
August 20 2010
I’ve HAD IT with PayPal & Their Lopsided Business Practices (RANT)
Six years of doing business selling online crochet patterns. SIX. I love what I do, but I don’t love dealing with PayPal. Matter of fact, I dislike them with a passion. In the last six years, I’ve had to make several phone calls to PayPal to work out claims and disputes. Every time it’s involved [...]
August 15 2010
Married, One Year Today. Holy Cannoli!
It’s crazy to think a year has gone by since I got married. A year ago on this nearly 90 degree day, I was running around like crazy taking care of all the last minute details of our do-it-yourself wedding, right down to the flowers with live succulents, the booze, the invites, the music, the [...]
August 13 2010
BREAKING NEWS: Happiness Found in a Box of Tilli Tomas
It’s a good day when a box of yarn arrives, especially when it’s packed with 6 skeins of Tilli Tomas yarn. I bought: 3 skeins of Voile de la Mer in Moroccan Blue 3 Skeins of Plie Silk in Gloxinia, Atmosphere, and Midnight Borealis At the moment, the Voile will be used to finish the [...]
August 11 2010
Sneak Peak: Shawl in Progress
Wouldn’t you like to know what this is??? Actually, it’s a shawl. And I’m only showing this lil’ bit. It’s a work-in-progress right now. It’s taking awhile to design because it’s fairly complicated. It’s a challenge. A fun challenge. Speaking of complicated, I had asked both my Facebook group and the folks at CLF on [...]
August 10 2010
Miami Scallop Shawl (The Remix)
Love the execution. Hate the style. In a nutshell, that’s how I feel about this tunisian shawl. I just spent a half hour the other day going through all my crochet stuff trying to organize the items into three piles: sell, donate, and needs pictures for pattern updates (that’s what I’ve been doing ad naseum [...]
August 7 2010
My Sweetest Girl…
…is driving me bonkers in the vet department. She’s racked up a substantial vet bill over the last several months – we’re talking over $1200 by now – for this one single issue: her tail biting. She’s biting the top of her tail and just a little above that. We don’t know why. We’ve tried [...]
August 5 2010
Current WIP: Midsummer’s Cream Camisole (REDO)
I’m stoked that the Midsummer’s Dream Camisole (published in the Summer 2008 edition of Interweave Crochet) copyright came back to me awhile ago. This was a popular pattern in terms of “love” on Ravelry (453 hearts isn’t so bad, is it?). I edited the pattern and bought yarn back in March, but I’ve slacked on [...]
August 2 2010
Reducing My (Crocheted) Footprint (And a few questions for my readers)
It’s been in my head for awhile now to update and revamp the layout for all the NexStitch patterns. With the last published patterns (Rhiannon Tote and Dandelion Neck Cuff), I had done some updating to the layout to eliminate the “intro” page and rework the materials page to include more product pictures and edit [...]
