Author: crowingram

Occasionally, I lift my head and realize that there’s a whole, big world out there going on while I work. This week, our friend and knitwear designer, author, and technical knitting anthropologist Beth Brown-Reinsel was in town to teach a couple of classes. If ever there was a way to break one’s concentration on mundane…

I suppose the same is true for fatigue and Movable Type, but I’ll risk it. For those of you who didn’t get Rob’s newsletter (subscribe at ThreadBearFiberArts.com), I’ve spent the last… seven hours or so rearranging shelving after our recent Spring Cleaning Sale. The basic idea was to make room for spring stock, but I…

No, I’m not reverting to my hermitting ways. It really has been that busy. If you don’t believe me, check out all the goings on at Rob’s blog. And that’s just a fraction of it. In the last few weeks, I’ve concussed myself, designed a new sweater, updated tons of new classes to the shop…

Um… I’m having a gender identity issue. I took a Quizilla this afternoon while browsing the Blogosphere, and it appears that I’m a Knitting Goddess. I’m flattered, but a little bruised, too. Are there no Knitting Gods? I don’t have to be THE Knitting God, but… I could be the Knitting Ganesh! I like him.…

In part, because I almost exclusively handle Rob‘s finishing on projects intended for shop models, and in part, because I am a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to finishing, I have become known in the community of knitters that surrounds ThreadBear as a finishing expert. The truth is that I do handle a…

Realistically, I suppose it’s unfair to call a writing day and a day off running errands and pouring over next season’s stock a respite, but I’m used to having to be much more… on. The opportunity to roam around in my own head has been quite a treat. It’s a bit dusty in there, but…

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…