Crowing Ram

It’ll be all right. Hell, it might even be downright wonderful. I’ve been toying around with ideas for a book since… well, honestly since Big Girl Knits came out last spring. Our friend (and Jillian’s and Amy’s), Shannon Okey, was in the store for the book release party and mentioned that I should write a…

I shied away from socks when I first started knitting. It wasn’t that I thought they were difficult, but I’d had a couple of shop owners ask me point blank if, since I was a man, I just knit socks. It kind of put me off socks, honestly. I somehow assumed that if I was…

I’ve searched through the manuals and online "knowledge base" to come up with absolutely bupkis. I am, therefore, opening my arms to the universe to let the answer come to me. Very zen, no? Here’s the issue: when you go to my archives, the links that bring you back to the main page take you…

I’m always happy when I have the opportunity to browse through Blogland. I forget what a great boon this community has been to me, and it’s jarring when I “come home” and realize that all of the nieces and nephews are all a little older, the tree in the back yard is just a little…

If you’re waiting for the forthcoming diatribe, it isn’t. There’s no big issue. There’s a small one, I suppose, but that’s just that I’ve not been able to get the RSS feed to work on either Rob’s or my site except through Bloglines, and I’ve had friends telling me to move to Movable Type since…

If you’re a yarn shop owner and you’re complaining about the cold, bite your tongue. Folks keep coming into the shop asking my transplanted Southern ASCII if I’m surviving the cold. Uh… yeah! I sell wool. My business is booming! As a matter of fact, as I was setting up Movable Type this morning at…

I got a very interesting e-mail from one of my staff earlier today. Check it out: I got this off the ‘spindlers list’, thought you might be interested. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Posted by: "Kathie [hidden]" [hidden]@[hidden] Thu Feb 1, 2007 11:05 am (PST) My niece, herself a knitter, is doing her thesis on knitters & knitting and…

Ok. The first person who asks if my fat a$$ is actually running marathon gets whacked in the head with a drop spindle. No, the point is that I’ve been trying a) to work harder in 2007, and more importantly b) to work smarter. I’m actually getting much more accomplished, but I have not, yet,…

I’m here, and oddly enough, I really haven’t been anywhere. Well, I’ve been to ThreadBear, and there are lots of folks who would envy me that. I get to play in fiber every day. I have a wonderful staff who make my work infinitely easier. I have a phenomenal clientele who—often against my own judgement—seem…

You know, whoever said that summer is deadtime in yarn shops hasn’t spent a whole lot of time in my company. I feel like I’ve been scrambling since the first blades of grass started poking through the snow in my front yard, and only in the last few weeks have I started to feel like…