I’m finishing up my fourth hat this week, and you might wonder why… It’s not a charity hat per se, although I’ve knitted many of those. It’s not exactly a gift, although I know who the intended recipient is. I’m knitting in the hopes of facilitating a bit of civility in congress. It’s an idea…
Category: Philosophical
Cooling Down
I may be the only human being in Minnesota who’s too hot today. I’ve been sitting all day with the window open, I swear if I went outside I’d melt the new snow off the sidewalk. I have fever, baby! This is something that comes on sometimes, now I understand that it’s part of the…
Holy Knitting!
Max has written his dvar Torah – the speech he’ll give about a section of his portion that resonates with him. Family and friends are flying in from out of town, a band has been hired, food is being prepared. But I wanted to do something more personal to show Max how proud I am of him. So I knit him a tallit.
Friday, January 7, 2011 By Rick Levine Virgo (Aug 23 – Sep 22) You’ve been riding a wave of creative energy that continues to be difficult to manifest. It’s as if your productive ideas are blocked by circumstances that are beyond your control. But don’t give up. Instead of logically trying to analyze all your…
My name is Annie
I pretend that I use Tetris as a jumping off point for designs. But I’m just kidding myself.
Working on that Positive Attitude thing…
So I held a pity party for myself yesterday and drowned my sorrows in a piece (O N E small piece) of poppy seed lemon cake at Caribou Coffee, and I’ve been suffering with a serious flare up ever since.
Queen Midas
The knitting I love. The explaining what and how I’m doing in such a way that other folks can recreate what I’ve done, that’s so hard that my head hurts and sometimes I hate it.
So my task right now is to find a way to LOVE the hard parts, the parts that don’t come naturally, the parts that take a little time.
It’s been hard
Prozac allowed me to prioritize my life, to do the things that were immediately necessary and carry other things over to work on when the time was right. It allowed me to be a better artist and a better business person.
Calling in Exhausted
I have a hard time visiting Ravelry now – which is a shame because it’s such an amazing site, and such a positive and wonderful boon to the fiber world.
Growing New Skin
Well, I don’t hate the internet, I enjoy it. I’ve learned things, made friends, and have run my very small business through the internet. I feel it brings folks together much more than it ever could separate them. But the haters are hard to read, my friend.