The Hook and I

Get Hooked: Simple Steps to Crochet Cool Stuff Originally uploaded by kpwerker.

It’s amazing when one cool package on my doorstep trumps another for blogging rights. Yesterday, I was all set to blog about some books that I had had on my list to review for some time… . . . → Read More: Get Hooked: Simple Steps to Crochet Cool Stuff

You all are way to interesting, and I can’t stop reading about what . . . → Read More: Must. Work. Today.

This can’t really be considered off-topic, can it? Given how I’ve yet to meet a crocheter/knitter who doesn’t consider chocolate to be a must-have knitting accessory. I was listening to The World today and heard a very funny, interesting report about Chloe Doutre-Roussel a chocolate connoisseur, who’s made a business out of eating chocolate! Her website . . . → Read More: The knitter’s other obsession…

I just finally bought Kim and Cecily’s book: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Crocheting. Of course, it lives up to all the hype–there are great photographs that make learning new techniques so much easier than following the much more common line drawings that appear in most books. They’ve covered pretty much every type of crochet you could imagine. . . . → Read More: Crochet Library: Teach Yourself Visually Crochet

amishgurumi Originally uploaded by plainsight.

Or maybe waldorfgurumi? Anyway–my take on Kim’s dude doesn’t have a face yet, but Selma has already layed claim to it after my class is over–I haven’t decided what embellishments to give it yet, but I know I want to embroider them… Maybe . . . → Read More: amishgurumi

Sculpture Space, a non-profit dedicated to supporting sculptors around the world is putting on an outdoor exhibit at Hamilton College, in Clinton, NY, where I grew up. Among the pieces featured are not one, but TWO crocheted pieces. My dad took a series of pictures of the sculptures.

The first is a tent with a rainbow-camoflauge-like pattern . . . → Read More: Hamilton College Hosts Fiber Sculpture

I’m straying off topic just briefly because my brother just e-mailed to let me know that The Williams Street Mix–the a capella group I founded with my roommate Kristy when we were sophomores at Connecticut College–has its own listing in Wikipedia. So, I’m in an encyclopedia… Cha!

Technorati Tags:music, a capella, Connecticut College, Williams . . . → Read More: Mixipedia

Ok, so maybe I made that last part up. But a big truck full of yarn did crash and spill all over a highway in South Carolina… Why was their no mention of fiber content? Gauge? The article says a second truck was sent in to pick up the yarn but they conveniently left out information . . . → Read More: Yarn causes traffic jam…knitters flock to scene to help with cleanup

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Oh, yeah–and Sheep and Wool too. I went to Maryland Sheep and Wool yesterday (Sunday). The weather was perfect–the crowds were light and friendly the yarn was plentiful…

I was pretty restrained in my buying–I came in looking for alpaca, but didn’t find exactly what I imagined I was looking for. Instead, I became captivated by all . . . → Read More: Alpacas, and Llamas and Bunnies…

I’ve been in the thick of a bunch of knitting projects and just picked up my hook last night for the first time in a while–I managed to burn through 100 meters of yummy mohair boucle–almost the entire yolk of a little v-neck cardigan in just a few hours…

Tomorrow, I begin a kids crochet class where . . . → Read More: I forgot how fast crochet is!