Yesterday in the mail, I got the brochure for the January TNNA conference. I dropped everything I was doing to register for classes. This is pretty much the only time of year I get to take classes instead of giving them and I always end up a better teacher and designer because of it. I like to take classes in things that I don’t necessarily knit for fun. I don’t knit socks, but I always take a Cat Bordhi class, well, because she’s a genius. Last year, I took tapestry crochet and intarsia. This year, I signed up for a crochet design class with Lily Chin (so excited–there are rarely classes on design offered anywhere and Lily is extremely entertaining), a class with Cat, and TWO cabling (beginning and advanced) classes with Melissa Leapman. I know how to do cables, but I expect to know a lot more after TNNA, and Melissa is a fun, generous, easy to learn-from teacher. I took a workshop from her this summer on managing the design submission process–she’s really a pro and I learned a lot.
So, it was a nice surprise today, when in the mail I got a new book: Cables Untangled: An Exploration of Cable Knitting