Category: general
a very good place to start
I’m always curious about origin stories. In my work helping clients with their solo and microbusinesses, I know that customers want to know about how a business began. These stories are part of us, and for many, they are a challenge to pause and share. I realized I’ve never shared my story. Construction In April…
Working with Anzula’s Yarns
I hope this post finds you and yours well as we begin to understand our “new normal.” We adapt. We mourn. We celebrate. We wash our hands. While I (once again) haven’t been consistent in writing here, I’ve been working with yarn and fiber. Some days I work on designs with intricate details that are…
swatching & schedule
Instead of writing here, the time that I normally set aside for this has been devoted instead to swatching. Here’s the resulting pile of some of what I’ve worked up over the past several weeks: This includes yarns from Anzula, Artyarns, Lorna’s Laces, Oink Pigments, and Yarn Over New York. What will these swatches become?…
five gift ideas
I know. It’s the time of year when we’re bombarded by lists about the best gifts for everyone we know. While it’s not my personal tradition to go gift crazy this time of year, here are my suggestions for now and year-round! Gift one: Time Right now everyone wants more time. Perhaps you could help…
tangled frogs
I didn’t mean to vanish. Sometimes yarn has other plans for you. It can also happen that one issue cascades others. Over recent weeks I’ve felt that my superpower has been to tangle yarn and redo the same project multiple times. drops It began with dropping a couple of stitches off the knitting machine. While…
beginner mindset & quick book review
Beginner mind (shoshin) is fascinating to me. I love to dive into something and just try things. Some of those things succeed and many fail. It’s in the failures that I learn the most. I’ve found as I advance in a skill I’m less likely to take risks and ask *what if?* as perfectionism threatens…