Ann Shayne's Blog, page 11

Greased Lightning

Dear Ann, Hey, it's a busy day. I'm going for a ten-minute lightning round here. Speaking of lightning, wonderful Wendy has made it rain! She blogged about her Cornerstone Blanket-in-progress, resulting in a renewed ka-ching sound from donations over at...

Icelandic (Sweater) Saga

Dear Ann, I'm all for this lightning-round blogging idea, but as anyone who's ever tried to have a short conversation with me knows, I'm more of a long-form person. Not sure I can do it, but here goes. June 2012:...

New for 2013: Lightning Round Blogging

Dear Kay, One of my many, many New Year's resolutions is to blog more often. I've decided that it's very easy to let the perfect be the enemy of the good, so I'm going to try something we are...

Delirious New Year!

Dear Kay, Well, here we are--into the Mayan apocalypse, over the fiscal cliff, right on into a brand-new year of handknits and whatnot. We are not going to talk about guns today. Anybody who wants to talk about guns...

What I Knitted Yesterday

Dear Kay, Clif came down with a fever on the afternoon of Christmas, not a huge one but enough that he had the pale look of a Dickensian street urchin. I was sorry for him but ready to hunker...

Not About Knitting

Dear Ann, I am sitting here, as our Christmas trip to Omaha approaches, surrounded by lush handknits that I've finally summoned the motivation to finish, block, and wrap in tissue paper. But I haven't had the heart to blog about...

Other People's Knitting: Knitmas Edition

Dear Ann: I'm completely wrecked from staying up with the kids last night to watch the British Pop Pensioners Concert, I mean the 12/12/12 concert to benefit Superstorm Sandy relief. There is now a clear demarcation in my life:...

Wreathed in Glory

Dear Ann, A super-short post to announce the winner of the drawing for the Hampstead Wreath knitted by my own fair hand. The lucky soon-to-be-adorned one is Lorajean aka KnittedWit on Ravelry. Thanks, everyone, for your generosity to Citymeals...

Wreath Spotting, Cornerstone Blanket Update--and a Drawing

Dear Ann, First, an update for our readers on the Cornerstone Blanket fundraising project. As of this morning, we have sent off 110 downloads of the pattern to knitters who donated at least 10 bucks to Citymeals-on-Wheels, a New...

Let's Do This Thing

Dear Everybody, After a few weeks of frantic knitting by me; cool, calm, collected work on the Quark machine by Ann; and eagle-eyed spadework by our offshore Technical Editing Department, we are proud to announce that our Hurricane Sandy...