Moses Jr. Goes To Yale
There's a film review by Dorothy Parker of The Ten Commandments where she uses the phrase, "Moses Jr. Goes to Yale" or something like that. For the life of me I can't find it now, but I know I read it. When I was in college I read (and memorized) a lot of DP - it suited my disaffected, out-of-place, poor girl at a rich school mindframe - but one can only take so much bitterness so I'd intersperse my DP with long sessions of MGM movie musical viewings.
So I feel like Zipporah Jr. going off to Yale (okay, Saybrook College) this weekend for a tea and a talk about knitting. (Checking out their website I see that Deb Stoller was to speak yesterday - although it says Thursday the 14th - so this must be knitting week for them!) It's going to be at 4:00pm and I'm going to stay overnight (at Yale! Boola boola!) and I'm pretty sure that anyone who's not busy is welcome to come. I'm sorry not to have more details (a location would be nice...) but I'm going to talk about hats (Easter!) and other kniting fun stuff.
High school dropout with a Masters speaks at Yale - details at eleven. They turned me down for grad school. Probably heard I was a high school drop out... And, the fact that it's Passover, and YALE just adds to the Moses stuff. I'm overexplaining this, huh?
CALENDAR OF DEATH
Bad news on the calendar. The files that I sent to the publisher were corrupted, and apparently all of the files I saved in the version of Quark I was using (6.5) are corrupted, too. They use Quark 5, so it's dicey if they can open files from 6.5 any way, but when I go back I'm not able to open them myself. Damn. It's not as devastating as it might be because I have all of the original text, formatted, and just have to input it again into the template and add the images, but it's work.
Picasso said that, "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction" so perhaps this calendar is beginning with an act of destruction? Today I'll write patterns all day, tomorrow I'll be at Yale, Sunday is Easter (eggs, chocolate, etc.) so on Monday - after I hear back from my publisher - I'll start again on the calendar. I'm thinking that I can whip out a month in about 3 hours now that I've done it once and everything is formatted, so I feel pretty sure I can get through the whole year by the end of the week. Yeah, right.
ROMANTIC KNITS
Next week I'm also FINALLY going to start assigning yarns and knitters to projects for Romantic Knits. I'm going to start with knitters who worked for me on Men Who Knit at indentured servant wages - I owe it to them to give them a better project with better pay this time, it's the least I can do.
The budget on this book is better (by the time I paid my knitters on Men Who Knit I'd run through my entire advance - let's hope the book is a hit or I will have lost money on it!) but I won't have to go so far out on a limb for this one. If I haven't been in touch with you and I said I would, don't despair! I probably will sometime next week.
OTHER BOOKS
I'm FINALLY going to be doing something with Habu - I'm using some of the sterling silver wire they sell for a bracelet for a new book, and I'm very excited! I've wanted to work with them for years, I've been lazy in not getting in touch with them, so this is a nice, easy way to get an introduction. Hmmm, maybe I can use one of their yarns in Romantic Knits...
On Tuesday Sabrina Gschwandtner from KnitKnit is coming by with a photographer to take some photos of my "studio" - um, did someone say dining room - for a new book on up and coming fiber folks.
Whether I'm up-and-coming or down-and-going is open for discussion, but I'm going to pamper myself and get a facial because my skin is looking icky (why? All that coughing!) and I want to glow! This is the book that I worked up the bathing suit for, so I'm psyched to see the whole thing completed so I can finally see the suit on a model (they'll be photographing it in Miami, it hasn't been photographed yet...)
Parlez Vous?
videmment je ne parle pas franais, est-ce que mais je me demande s'il y aurait un march pour mes modles traduits en Franais? Faites-moi savoir si ceci ferait appel vous - il est quelque chose que je pondering... and, perhaps also obviously, I'd be hiring a real, live French speaker and pattern tester to do the translation not just of the pattern, but of the knitting terms, etc. Any interest in this?
So I feel like Zipporah Jr. going off to Yale (okay, Saybrook College) this weekend for a tea and a talk about knitting. (Checking out their website I see that Deb Stoller was to speak yesterday - although it says Thursday the 14th - so this must be knitting week for them!) It's going to be at 4:00pm and I'm going to stay overnight (at Yale! Boola boola!) and I'm pretty sure that anyone who's not busy is welcome to come. I'm sorry not to have more details (a location would be nice...) but I'm going to talk about hats (Easter!) and other kniting fun stuff.
High school dropout with a Masters speaks at Yale - details at eleven. They turned me down for grad school. Probably heard I was a high school drop out... And, the fact that it's Passover, and YALE just adds to the Moses stuff. I'm overexplaining this, huh?
CALENDAR OF DEATH
Bad news on the calendar. The files that I sent to the publisher were corrupted, and apparently all of the files I saved in the version of Quark I was using (6.5) are corrupted, too. They use Quark 5, so it's dicey if they can open files from 6.5 any way, but when I go back I'm not able to open them myself. Damn. It's not as devastating as it might be because I have all of the original text, formatted, and just have to input it again into the template and add the images, but it's work.
Picasso said that, "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction" so perhaps this calendar is beginning with an act of destruction? Today I'll write patterns all day, tomorrow I'll be at Yale, Sunday is Easter (eggs, chocolate, etc.) so on Monday - after I hear back from my publisher - I'll start again on the calendar. I'm thinking that I can whip out a month in about 3 hours now that I've done it once and everything is formatted, so I feel pretty sure I can get through the whole year by the end of the week. Yeah, right.
ROMANTIC KNITS
Next week I'm also FINALLY going to start assigning yarns and knitters to projects for Romantic Knits. I'm going to start with knitters who worked for me on Men Who Knit at indentured servant wages - I owe it to them to give them a better project with better pay this time, it's the least I can do.
The budget on this book is better (by the time I paid my knitters on Men Who Knit I'd run through my entire advance - let's hope the book is a hit or I will have lost money on it!) but I won't have to go so far out on a limb for this one. If I haven't been in touch with you and I said I would, don't despair! I probably will sometime next week.
OTHER BOOKS
I'm FINALLY going to be doing something with Habu - I'm using some of the sterling silver wire they sell for a bracelet for a new book, and I'm very excited! I've wanted to work with them for years, I've been lazy in not getting in touch with them, so this is a nice, easy way to get an introduction. Hmmm, maybe I can use one of their yarns in Romantic Knits...
On Tuesday Sabrina Gschwandtner from KnitKnit is coming by with a photographer to take some photos of my "studio" - um, did someone say dining room - for a new book on up and coming fiber folks.
Whether I'm up-and-coming or down-and-going is open for discussion, but I'm going to pamper myself and get a facial because my skin is looking icky (why? All that coughing!) and I want to glow! This is the book that I worked up the bathing suit for, so I'm psyched to see the whole thing completed so I can finally see the suit on a model (they'll be photographing it in Miami, it hasn't been photographed yet...)
Parlez Vous?
videmment je ne parle pas franais, est-ce que mais je me demande s'il y aurait un march pour mes modles traduits en Franais? Faites-moi savoir si ceci ferait appel vous - il est quelque chose que je pondering... and, perhaps also obviously, I'd be hiring a real, live French speaker and pattern tester to do the translation not just of the pattern, but of the knitting terms, etc. Any interest in this?
11 Comments:
I hope to see you (in my Cabled Colorwork cardigan from an old IK) tomorrow. The website hasn't been updated in a long time. Deb Stoller spoke last April! Anyway, if you want me to show you around in New Haven or campus at all, let me know.
Lauren
almostfelted.com
Hiya... about the patterns in french... I'm willing to be a test knitter for them :) I'm a proofreader (in French, Dutch and English) so if you need one of those I'm willing to do that too. I do not translate though :)
Cheers Eva
sweetpea at sweet-p dot net
Annie, I hate to be bossy, so just consider this strongly-worded advice. Dump Quark and get Adobe InDesign. Quark is going to make your life miserable for many years if you stick with it. You can open Quark files in ID with a small amount of tweaking. ID is more of a "serious" designer's program so it takes a little getting used to but it doesn't crash and files rarely get corrupted. It's well worth the initial investment. If you do this, I'm happy to talk you through the transition and recommend books, etc - just email me.
Also lynda.com has some great videos for learning programs, at minimal expense.
Jen
(magazine designers against Quark)
Hey Jen,
I'm 100% with you! I've HAD it with Quark, but this is what the publisher of this piece uses, so I have to use their software - it is an annoyance.
And I really have to bone up on ID - I've loved lynda.com for YEARS, I'll check out the tuts.
Annie, about all I can say in French is "yes, he is a poodle" and "*darn*, he dropped a bar." Which comes in handy if you are at a dog show because you get NQ'd for cussing in the ring - of course, you are toast if the judge also knows how to cuss in French. 8-)
As for the Quark issue, you can try setting up a script to do the tasks....although that might be as much of a pain as doing it yourself! I have InDesign myself, so other than that, I can't be much help in the Quark department.
You know, I've been reading your blog for a while and never put together that you are the editor of 2007 Crochet Pattern a Day Calendar. Egads, am I unobservant or what! :)
there is a knitter at my sit & knit who is from montreal, if you like, i could suggest it to her.
You'll be in my town! I have rehearsal most of the day tomorrow, but I'd love to catch you while you're here if you're staying over!
Hi Annie, this is Manon, I came to your workshop at Village Yarns (in Toronto) with my daughter Mlanie. I am an English to French certified translator, and I have been a knitter for over 40 years. I actually first learned to read knitting instructions in French; found it really hard to re-learn the process in English, but got used to it eventually! I would be very happy to be a pattern tester and a translator of patterns and knitting terms. By the way, I am half-way through the Ribbed Corset, which I started after the workshop and love it! Please e-mail me if you would like to discuss it further. I am sure that plenty of French knitters would love to get your patterns in French, because it is not enough to know the language to follow instructions, you also have to know the lingo, as I found out myself!
now if you want german - i am there for you! no problem!
and i think Karina at WW can do Russian for you :)
happy passover!
Oooh, I can't wait for Romantic Knits!!!
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