knits and design
Posted in art knits, fun stuff, knitting, on the homefront, shop news on Jun 22nd, 2010
My daughter, Hazel, came home from college for a brief stay this summer before returning to move into an apartment in Lawrence. I wrote here earlier that she worked in the shop while I was recently away. What I didn’t write is that she was also hard at work planning and making a fiber sculpture [...]
Posted in fun stuff, knitting, market update, shop news on Jun 13th, 2010
This is a photo of the card I’ll be bringing home showing the popular colors for fall 2010. Trends are on the flip side: SHEERLY BELOVED- light knits perfect for layering. URBAN DE-GRAY- The perfect polished shade that showed up all over the runways. GILTY PLEASURES- Gold, bronze and burnished metallics rock! ANIMAL INSTINCTS- Wild [...]
Posted in fun stuff, knitting, market update, shop news on Jun 11th, 2010
Education classes run Thursday and Friday before the market opens on Saturday and this year TNNA tried something new called TIPS. TIPS consisted of 6 thirty minute sessions presented by various exhibitors such as yarn companies, publishers, designers, etc. I thought I’d share with you some of the sessions I attended. My first session was [...]
Posted in fun stuff, knitting, knitting related techno stuff on Mar 15th, 2010
I love my iphone… I recently read an article in one of my trade magazines that listed some of the knitting apps, so I thought I’d share them and a quite a few others with you here. I’m not including reviews, because I haven’t actually used any of them. I’ve tried to post links to [...]
Posted in art knits, fun stuff, knitting, on the homefront on Sep 21st, 2009
Some of you have heard about Hazel’s bat project. It’s been a tough one to photograph so I couldn’t post pictures until there was a little more to post. I think I have a few now that begin to show the progression. It’s going to be a while before she’s finished- school has started and [...]
Posted in art knits, fun stuff, knitting, on the homefront on Aug 25th, 2009
My daughter, Hazel, knows how to knit. It’s not her passion like it is mine. She has always knit for the most part with function in mind. I guess that makes her a “project knitter” rather than a an “obsessive have to be knitting for the sake of knitting” process knitter like me. At this [...]
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