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hello, 2009
happy new year. i know?i’m just a little late to the party. i have no idea what happened to yesterday?good thing i didn’t make any vows to blog every day this year (though i enjoy immensely that other people manage it with such panache). heh. maybe next year.
i do very much want to express my deep gratitude for your enthusiasm and generosity as readers of my blog and users of my patterns in 2008. you have captured my imagination and followed up by urging and cheering me along through dozens of projects. we have picked names for knits together, traveled through the design process together, and celebrated many, many finishing lines as a group. the collaborations that have materialized through this blog with dyers, test knitters, metalsmiths, and many more artisans along with other bloggers and readers are some of the most amazing of my life, with astounding results.
i hope everyone is looking forward to a year of possibility. i know we all expect changes that may seem like obstacles, but you never know?changes that are forced upon us sometimes germinate into positive growth of unexpected proportions if we keep an open mind about them. that has been my experience, anyway?it was during a four-month drought of work in 2006 that i cheered myself up by starting my blog and nothing has been the same since . . .
i’m setting just a few important goals for this year, mostly around streamlining things so i can optimize my time. my one huge design goal is to start getting those sweater patterns out. it didn’t happen last year, but i’m determined to get it going this year. as always, the biggest obstacle for me is getting started, but i’m challenging myself to just do it.
so yeah, let’s get started on 2009.
first off, i have a couple of announcements from collaborators i want to pass along.
the fiber baristas have opened their 2009 postcards from home yarn club for signups. this sounds like an interesting club?and something different. instead of yarn from one source, the club will send installments from different dyers throughout the year. there’s a ravelry group too, where you can find out lots more.
signups for the taste of shivaya club will open tomorrow at shivaya naturals?you can read a few details about the club at heather’s blog today. this promises to be a lovely offering with gorgeous picks from heather’s luxurious line of naturally-dyed yarns.
now lets talk about knitting
it’s been an incredibly productive week here. i’ve been devoting most of my time to my secret project so that i can finish it quickly. fortunately, that’s working well for me. and equally fortunate is the fact that i love the yarn. the color couldn’t be more perfect for this time of year?i feel like i have a little spring shrub growing right before my eyes in here.
something about it being the holidays made the whole place seem quieter and less focused on “work”, which gave me time to actually work. normally i hit my desk first thing in the morning and stay pretty close to it all day, because we’re supposed to be available to the office (that would be my day job) from 9 to 6, even if we don’t know that work will be coming in. it makes it hard to feel ok with knitting in the middle of the day, so i fill the time with email, patten writing, etc, then end up working on all of that far later than i should. i often leave my desk too jazzed up to settle properly into my knitting when the time comes.
things are extremely slow at the office though, and we’re not expecting work to come in for a while (and maybe never; they’re not saying yet), so we’re now more free to be off getting other stuff done, finances allowing. and i’m discovering that freedom to organize my day differently opens up my brain immensely?how about that. i’m really grateful to immerse myself in it again like this.
i’ve been writing patterns and knitting a lot, which is really calming. sometimes, when things are hectic, i start feeling really disconnected from knitting, so having this time to focus on it is very therapeutic. i finished my brother’s birthday socks
and wrote the pattern; it should be ready to …
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