This is a blog about the things I make out of yarn, beads, paper and occasional other things. I resisted doing a personal blog for a long, long time – but I couldn’t stand it anymore! If nothing else, this will serve as a personal diary for me that traces my creative process. Maybe I’ll find out why making things is so important to me. Maybe I’ll just end up with a houseful of hand made junk. Come and see.
About me – I am a life-long crafter currently in love with knitting, beading and card-making. I’m in my 40′s and live in Northern California with my husband. We have two grown sons. I have one cat – Gracie – and recently lost my best friend, a black lab named Bella. Maybe that’s why I am starting this blog now – to help me beyond the loss. I am a journalist by trade – a religion reporter for secular media – and have one other blog, Bead One, Pray Too, which is about making and using prayer beads of the world. It is based on my third book, of the same title.
Dear Kimberly,
Am I stupid or what??? I just now (12/9) saw that you had posted a terrific shout out to me via your blog. The photos at the Womens Show were wonderful and a great way to spread the word for me. THANK YOU!
The reason I just saw it today was because………….I just can’t seem to get onto your blog. In other words, da, I can’t figure out how to subscribe. There’s nothing on the blog, that I can see anyway, that encourages me to do that. Help! Do you know of a way?
I’m SURE I was born in the wrong century. Technology just isn’t in my vocabulary and certainly not in my brain.
See you at class on Friday and maybe you can lead me in the right direction. And thank you again for being so generous with your pictures and descriptions of my jewelry.
Cheers,
Janie
Hi Kimberly,
It was wonderful to see you again tonight, but then again, it is always wonderful to see you. Cannot believe that it has been only about a year since I returned to knitting. I still remember that sampler shawl class with fondness. You patiently gave me the skills to finish the project. As for stitch markers and lifelines…. I cannot even comprehend how I successfully knitted an Aran sweater decades ago without using them. God must have thought kindly about a beginning knitter who wanted to knit a sweater for her mother and made the task less daunting.
You asked me to send you an e mail to remind you to print a copy of the Haruni pattern for me and hopefully bring it in on Saturday when you are in K2Tog. I’d appreciate it a great deal. Still have been much too lazy to shop for a computer printer but have to do that before long. If there is any charge for the printing, please let me know. From what I recall, you are generally in the shop in the mid afternoons on Saturday. If you get a chance, let me know and I’ll promptly be there.
Happy you liked my Raha scarf. I love…absolutely loved knitting with Lorna’s Lace Honor. Wish I had made the scarf longer as Bush’s book shows the pattern looped several times around the model’s neck. I took Karen’s recent gauge/swatch class and I leaned a lot…but then…all of both your and Karen’s classes are awesome. I am currently working on graphing out a knitted hat and incorporating some of the Raha designs onto the sides. Not a beginning project? You’d never say that. Karen would not say that… nor would I. Obviously, I will use a commercially available pattern (in this case, a design from Karen’s Knitting in the Round class) and just adjust the number of cast on stitches and graphing out the Raha designs for the sides. It is going to be fun to knit my own hat rather than automatically following a published pattern from beginning to end. Guess I have always thought outside the box so am not going to change after 70 years… lol
Enjoy the Stitches show.
Marlene
Kimberly, is there a way to be notified when you’ve made new entries on your blog?
Mary Jane