In the Mood

Over at the [Knitting Daily->] blog, they’ve been discussing the design process used by Michelle Rose Orne in her book, Inspired to Knit.  I haven’t gotten the book yet, but Michelle’s description of her design process intrigues me:

As a designer for the garment industry for many years, I used … mood or “story boards” when [...]

UFOlympics! the Summer Games

OK, I got game.  (Whatever that means.)
I also still got plenty of UFO’s.
So, here goes:  I’m officially entering the 2008 Summer UFOlympic Games.
Welllll, kind of officially.  There’s some wiggle room there, I think.
Background:  As far as I can tell after a whole 5 minutes of online research, the UFOlympics concept started in 2006 with this blogger’s [...]

Latest & Greatest

Admittedly, I haven’t written much in the past week (heck, I haven’t written anything).  But, I have an excellent excuse reason.  Actually, several reasons…

#1 reason is, I have a bad Continental knitting habit of using my right index finger to help out on each and every stitch.  I don’t actually need to use it — I can [...]

I’m in I’m in I’m in I’m in I’m in!!

Of course, this means I’m in at [Ravelry->].
Actually, I got invited about a week ago, but haven’t had time to go exploring before now. What fun! Lots to do!
Unfortunately for me, someone already has the username “tessknits” – so on Ravelry I’m now known as “tessm”. Maybe we should start a group on Ravelry for [...]