Embrace Your Geekiness
My pals and I had a problem. We are crafty gals and dabble in many things. Fleur has ceramics, jewelry making, crocheting… Carly has sewing, paper craftiness, knitting… I have knitting, crocheting… We started lamenting about our stashes of unfinished projects. The things you start with every intention of getting done as soon as possible …
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One of my goals for this year is to illustrate a children’s book that John has written. Drawing used to be a huge passion of mine. I could spend 5-8 hours at a time drawing in high school and college. And then I didn’t have a reason to keep drawing. I had finished school and no longer …
I’ve done a bit more research on the color knitting techniques I should try out for my mug cozy and I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to learn intarsia knitting. Before today, intarsia and stranded knitting were all the same to me. Now I know better… When using the stranded knitting technique, the floating yarn on …
Just a quick update on my knitting pattern design adventure. Worked on this in Photoshop (I guess I gave up on hand-drawing) based on the test knit I was working on. This chart is 76 columns by 42 rows. The color changes are still very spaced apart, so I will need to learn how to …
As I had written a few weeks ago, I have started working on my first knitting chart / pattern. My hope is to be able to design a simple, knitted travel mug cozy featuring a few sheep grazing on a hill. My test knitting has been slow because I’m using fingering weight yarn and I have …
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Confession #1: Unfortunately, I used to view volunteering as the giving up of free time. Not wanting to give up my free time, I did not volunteer in the last 10 years while I had a full-time job. Yep. It’s out there; my shame is known. We’re in a bit of a lull as far as traveling goes …
This post will be the start of a short series of posts documenting how a complete newbie to knitting pattern design figures out how to do it. Stay tuned for more! I have been knitting for 6 years, 7 months, 23 days. The first lesson was so traumatic I remember the exact day — just kidding, …
Yesterday I spent the entire day doing something I haven’t done in a few years that I used to do almost every single weekend as a kid. I read. From 7am until about 11pm, almost 16 hours, I escaped in a way that only a book allows. I love that when you really let yourself …
So hopefully this turns into one of those “I quit my job and now I’m extremely fulfilled and successful” kind of stories because last month I quit my job of 8 years as a web designer at a digital marketing agency. I left so that John and I could travel before he starts going to …
These are my promises to myself. I want to be off of my phone (no Facebook, Pinterest, Reddit) after 7pm every day. I noticed I was spending hours doing these things at night when I could be doing anything else. And the return on time invested in online activities like that is… pretty much nothing. …