Ann Shayne's Blog, page 5
April 18, 2013
Fine, Not Fine
Dear Kay, You know how you're in the grocery store, and you say "How's it going?" to the checkout person? Yesterday I said that out of habit, and the woman behind the cash register just looked at me and...
April 16, 2013
Sir Colin Davis: Conductor, Knitter
Dear Kay, Heavy heavy HEAVY hearted about Boston, especially about trying to talk about it with young people. Amid all this, a big thanks to linguistics prof/Mayan scholar/sublime alto/knitting designer Mareike Sattler for passing along a lovely bit of conversation...
April 13, 2013
Pattern of the Week: Citron Grand
Dear Kay, This postcard serves mostly as an advertisement for Malabrigo Sock Yarn. And a pattern for which I have supertender feelings. This is shade 812, Chocolate Amargo. Which means Bitter Chocolate down there in Peru where I imagine...
April 12, 2013
The Fiber Factor: Unauthorized Rogue Participant
Dear Kay, I love a contest. As you know, Project Runway is one of my all-time favorites. The newly announced Fiber Factor knitting design competition is right up my alley, but I didn't get an application together, so I'm watching,...
April 11, 2013
MDK Mailbag: Moses Basket Sighting
Dear Kay, This just in from the west coast: niece in a Mason-Dixon Moses Basket, five years later. Love, Ann...
April 9, 2013
Nepenthe: "Everybody in the whole entire world comes here"
Dear Kay, Sometimes I think you can read my mind. IT COULD BE TRUE, YOU KNOW. So when you Tweeted this video of Kaffe Fassett talking about his show at London's Fashion and Textile Museum, I thought, well, there...
April 7, 2013
Not Fade Away
Dear Ann, Think of this as my little Rowan Denim scrapbook. From the talk on Ravelry, it seems fairly certain that Rowan is in fact discontinuing Rowan Denim. Some cling to hope, because it's still on the Spring/Summer 2013 shade...
April 6, 2013
Pasadena Postcard
Dear Kay, Love this tranquil place. Just watched a squirrel snacking on a camellia for a good long while. Love, Ann...
April 4, 2013
Along the Pacific Coast Highway
Dear Kay, Alice Starmore has a number of out-of-print, elusive books, among them Pacific Coast Highway. I don't have this book, published in 1997, and I don't have a pile of doubloons to go get one. I did, however,...
April 3, 2013
Spring Break: Uncharted Territory, Charted Handknits. Plus a Sonnet
Dear Kay, Hello hello hello! A week away and I feel like I've been away for a YEAR. So much to tell, so little time. We headed to California for a spring break ramble: seven nights, six hotels up...
