I give 9 a TEN!
I so enjoyed my last two days (last day, actually...) teaching at Nine Rubies in San Mateo. The staff there - Jocelyn, Sudha and Saloni (in no certain order, girls, you're ALL pretty...) were so accommodating, so kind and made me feel very much at home.
The students were incredibly thoughtful and hard working. I've found that over and over on this trip - so much for the stereotype of the free-wheeling Northern Californian! These knitters are SERIOUS about their passion, and they're THINKING knitters. The best kind of knitter a teacher can have!
Everyone in the class was brilliant - seriously - those who didn't think highly of their skills left thinking much better about their knitting. And those who already felt good left - I hope - feeling even more accomplished. I worked both classes hard, I made them sweat in the evening class (Lace) more than in the Combo class, but everyone impressed me. I'd go back in a heartbeat!
Advice
All of your advice on the knitting video was wonderful - I got the message about the music LOUD and CLEAR, and I have a lot of food for thought on the other points. I've done a little video editing - Gerry's done a lot more - so now I have to explore editing for a DVD so that I can try to address some of the intelligent concerns (repeating easily, breaking into small enough bits to go back easily, etc.) without breaking the bank.
Who knows WHAT will be coming up for me in the next few months - I'm leaving myself pretty wide open except for teaching - and it feels scary, but very good. Rest.
Bags Unpacked
I'm in Santa Rosa right now, checked into my hotel and ready to head up to Knitterly for a cable class this evening. Ah, cables - how I love you!
My car is sitting in the registration bin, I have a luggage cart in my room, but I'm so darned exhausted that I couldn't bring myself to drag my sorry butt down to return the cart or move the car right away. I'm vamping by blogging, but I'll run down in 10 minutes - and then off to Petaluma for class. I'm such a do-right, I've really only had my car down there for 20 minutes, but the guilt starts immediately!
When I arrived in my room there was a lovely basket of wine and cheese, tea, treats from Knitting Workshop - I feel like I'm back in France! Thank you, Sandi!
How lucky am I to have such a wonderful welcome - I hope I can do a good job for them at their shop!
10:30 pm update
Nausea, Jammies & Tea
My class tonight went great - an engaged class, lots of laughs, and I whipped them into shape lovingly with faux fearsome banter. But I felt off - physically - and I had all afternoon since lunch. When I arrived at my hotel room I felt a little iffy, but I showered and headed to the gig at Knitterly hoping that the groove of knitting would keep me above water.
I got through most of the class - I felt a little weave-y at times, but worked through the cabling and the bobbles, but then I broke into a cold sweat and suddenly felt very nauseas and dizzy. Ick. After a quick trip to the bathroom, I decided I just had to get back to my hotel (it was 10 minutes to the end of class anyway - thankfully I'd signed books for folks during the class break!)
I got back to my room, 15 miles away, in good time - and just in time to make full use of - as we used to call it in college - the ceramic goddess. I think the shrimp tempura I had for lunch in San Mateo didn't agree with me. I felt a little off as soon as I ate it, but that feeling subsided as I drove up to Petaluma (what a beautiful drive, by the way!)
But apparently it didn't agree with me - in a major way. So now I'm feeling much better, in my jammies in bed (there's WiFi at this hotel - the first time this trip and BOY do I need it this time!) with a cup of Earl Grey and Olbermann on the TV.
Actually, Keith is interviewing the big dog, so I'm kind of in wonky-girl heaven... And then Stewart & Colbert are on (I haven't had access to Comedy Central all week)
Now THAT'S good for what ails me! And here's my own private North Dakota...
The students were incredibly thoughtful and hard working. I've found that over and over on this trip - so much for the stereotype of the free-wheeling Northern Californian! These knitters are SERIOUS about their passion, and they're THINKING knitters. The best kind of knitter a teacher can have!
Everyone in the class was brilliant - seriously - those who didn't think highly of their skills left thinking much better about their knitting. And those who already felt good left - I hope - feeling even more accomplished. I worked both classes hard, I made them sweat in the evening class (Lace) more than in the Combo class, but everyone impressed me. I'd go back in a heartbeat!
Advice
All of your advice on the knitting video was wonderful - I got the message about the music LOUD and CLEAR, and I have a lot of food for thought on the other points. I've done a little video editing - Gerry's done a lot more - so now I have to explore editing for a DVD so that I can try to address some of the intelligent concerns (repeating easily, breaking into small enough bits to go back easily, etc.) without breaking the bank.
Who knows WHAT will be coming up for me in the next few months - I'm leaving myself pretty wide open except for teaching - and it feels scary, but very good. Rest.
Bags Unpacked
I'm in Santa Rosa right now, checked into my hotel and ready to head up to Knitterly for a cable class this evening. Ah, cables - how I love you!
My car is sitting in the registration bin, I have a luggage cart in my room, but I'm so darned exhausted that I couldn't bring myself to drag my sorry butt down to return the cart or move the car right away. I'm vamping by blogging, but I'll run down in 10 minutes - and then off to Petaluma for class. I'm such a do-right, I've really only had my car down there for 20 minutes, but the guilt starts immediately!
When I arrived in my room there was a lovely basket of wine and cheese, tea, treats from Knitting Workshop - I feel like I'm back in France! Thank you, Sandi!
How lucky am I to have such a wonderful welcome - I hope I can do a good job for them at their shop!
10:30 pm update
Nausea, Jammies & Tea
My class tonight went great - an engaged class, lots of laughs, and I whipped them into shape lovingly with faux fearsome banter. But I felt off - physically - and I had all afternoon since lunch. When I arrived at my hotel room I felt a little iffy, but I showered and headed to the gig at Knitterly hoping that the groove of knitting would keep me above water.
I got through most of the class - I felt a little weave-y at times, but worked through the cabling and the bobbles, but then I broke into a cold sweat and suddenly felt very nauseas and dizzy. Ick. After a quick trip to the bathroom, I decided I just had to get back to my hotel (it was 10 minutes to the end of class anyway - thankfully I'd signed books for folks during the class break!)
I got back to my room, 15 miles away, in good time - and just in time to make full use of - as we used to call it in college - the ceramic goddess. I think the shrimp tempura I had for lunch in San Mateo didn't agree with me. I felt a little off as soon as I ate it, but that feeling subsided as I drove up to Petaluma (what a beautiful drive, by the way!)
But apparently it didn't agree with me - in a major way. So now I'm feeling much better, in my jammies in bed (there's WiFi at this hotel - the first time this trip and BOY do I need it this time!) with a cup of Earl Grey and Olbermann on the TV.
Actually, Keith is interviewing the big dog, so I'm kind of in wonky-girl heaven... And then Stewart & Colbert are on (I haven't had access to Comedy Central all week)
Now THAT'S good for what ails me! And here's my own private North Dakota...
13 Comments:
I hope this trip does wonders for your psyche and doesn't exhaust you too much. Although I love classes I always need too recharge afterwards.
I would love a knitting video from you. Something that is different from everyone elses would be just you. Having seen you on Knitty Gritty, you have a wonderful voice, very patient, something I could just listen to without the picture (this is a plus because for some reason if the voice is bad I can't get through the material). What if you just did this in your house and did defferent sessions on design, on fit, on all of the things that you know that would be the tricks that we don't (the pointing of the needles-that was amazing). It is about the knitting,but in some ways it is like the blog, something that is just you. Maybe a tape about teaching and what you think works or little breaks that give little info bits. In the books and magazines there is always a page that has abbreviations, yarn, etc and maybee that wouyld be the glossary or a separate DVD that could be purchased. I could go on and on.
I can't imagine anything that you do being anything but excellent and above what anyone would expect. You are such a gift.
Thanks.
I hope you have a great class again tonight Annie. I wish I could be there; I'd LOVE to take one of your classes some day. PLEASE come back to So. Cal.!!!
I hope Gerry is getting stronger and feeling better every day and that Hannah, Max, and Atticus are all doing great too! I ditto what anonymous said "You are such a gift". Truly.
Have fun at Knitterly tonight -- they're really wonderful there! So funny, in your first line when you gave a shout-out to Jocelyn, I couldn't for the life of me figure out what I'd been doing there (there are not a lot of folks with my name spelled the same way), especially since I'd so wanted to be (I wondered if I'd gone on an extended sleepwalking trip -- alas, not). Have an excellent time at your class -- I hope the students are all as good as they have been!
Annie,
Thanks so much for the class! I started using combination on my project at home (Lizard Ridge), and I can't believe how much more even my fabric looks! I hope you enjoyed San Mateo, and I'm sure we'd all love to see you again soon. :)
-Sarah
(she of the funny looking pendant)
Ummm...Annie, Mt Rushmore is in South Dakota...unless you carved the faces of a bunch of comedians in the side of a mountain up in North Dakota...
:)
Ummm...Annie, it's actually spelled "nauseous".
Maybe someone will by you a dictionary for Christmas.
Use it.
Oh, I know, of COURSE it's becasue you were SICK.
To the anonymous person above this comment: Would you like a saucer of milk? Meeeow!
I think the wilds of North Dakota would be a great place of your monument!!!
ND is always complaining SD gets all the tourists!
lerve the revised mt. rushmore!
Love that photo. I was at my daughter's house all week & she doesn't have cable. And the crap Direct TV DVR that I got to replace the old (Tivo) DT DVR that had a hard drive fail did not record a major portion of the shows it was supposed to, including some of the Daily Shows & Colbert Reports that I missed. Hopefully I can pick up most of the rest from the Comedy Central website. But Damages (one of the few dramas I watch) also is MIA. Why are they charging me extra money every month for this service that fails at least as often as it works?
I saw this and laughed because that would by my Mt. Rushmore, too! You picked three people whose shows I Tivo every night and the greatest political mind of our time! You are awesome!
Perhaps due to a shortage of politeness, anonymous posted the following:
Anonymous said...
" Ummm...Annie, it's actually spelled "nauseous".
Maybe someone will by you a dictionary for Christmas.
Use it.
Oh, I know, of COURSE it's becasue you were SICK."
LOL...There is just something so funny about a snarky spelling flame that contains a spelling error.
Why are people reading this blog who aren't genuinely interested in the author and her life? Who are mean-spirited and appear to be looking for things (anything!) to criticize?
I guess it's not that surprising, but it certainly is disappointing as well as impolite.
Two spelling errors, not just one. Anonymous wrote 'by' for "buy" and 'becasue" for 'because'.
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