TNNA – that happened! I have been traveling so much (I counted up 11 teaching trips between May – October!!!). Yesterday I had a rare day off before my next trip to teach at the Knit and Crochet Show, and I was doing fun chores like going through receipts and filing expense reports (the life […]
Yarn Dyeing Techniques! One great thing about working with so many talented folks, is getting a chance to get together after hours, have a glass of wine, and learn something new. We had been hearing about all the amazing yarn dyeing techniques Grace had been sharing in her Dyeing classes at the Studio, and wanted […]
I have no idea what happened to April, or March for that matter. How are we in the middle of May???? Gardening in New York. Mother’s Day = Planting Tomatoes! I woke up this morning and realized it was time to get gardening. In New York, Mother’s Day is the day to put in the […]
Yesterday I got an e-mail letting me know that a woman, whom I really knew very little about, had died . . . and I was utterly heart broken. She had been a regular at the Studio since the first week we opened. Every week for over four years she sat at our project table, […]
The Last Five (12) Years Recently I had to face my own age when I attended a revival of a show I originated. It was bound to happen. I was a stage manager for 22 years, and in that time I worked on many world premieres. I guess a revival was inevitable . . . […]
Yarn Market News Conference 2013 One of my favorite parts of my year as a knitting professional, is attending the Yarn Market News Conference. Yarn Market News is our trade journal, and once a year, the magazine hosts a conference with speakers on everything from Visual Merchandising to Branding to Social Media. This year’s conference […]
I’ve had a few epiphanies lately about theater (my old life) and knitting (my new life) and the things they have in common. My old life – Company of 42nd Street (I’m in the first row to the left) My new life – Standing up in front of a room full of knitters, teaching
It’s been nearly three years since I blogged. Don’t worry this won’t be the blog equivalent of Edith Bunker’s High School Reunion episode (for those of you who do not possess an uncanny memory for television from 1973 – I’m sorry, but you can click on the You Tube link). I won’t start by telling […]
A lot has been going on in the last six weeks since out apartment has been taken OVER by our kitchen rehab. With the Living Room / Dining Room being the staging area, the kitchen torn to shreds, our guest bedroom / office being our kitchen. That means we have been living in our bedroom. […]
We’ve been talking about it and saving for it for years. Now we are finally starting. This Tuesday we begin our 4 -5 week (hopefully) time of living in our bedroom & eating in our office. Say goodbye to this black tiled nightmare: With broken, badly done tile countertop: And the undercabinet oven that doesn’t […]