All Stitched Up!
No, friends. I have not returned to the dark art of sewing*. I'm just a little squee because I finally received the email today notifying me that registration is now open for Stitches Midwest!
No sooner than clicking through to the site and checking out this year's class offerings did I find what could be construed as a newbie sock knitter's dream: Nancy Bush on knitting "Vintage Socks." At the time I bought her book, I hadn't even cast on for sock number one. I just adored the adaptations of the old patterns, as well as the history of stocking stitching. But now? Now is different. I feel myself being sucked into the vortex and until I get to the other side, I'm totally enchanted by the art of crafting knitted foot and leg coverings.
I'm also going to learn how to "Design My Own Dream Sweater." Hopefully, I'll walk away with improved techniques for pattern writing and translating some of my sketches into the real thing. See, there's one design that I think is fantastic and that would look good on most women. I even have the yarn for it. Hope. Eternal. Etcetera.
Stitches doesn't hit these parts until August, so I should have plenty of time to plan just how much money I'll drop on the Market floor. Not like last year when I was so overwhelmed by all this lusciousness in one place that I went wild! This year, my mantra with be "discretion and containment."
For those of you who know me, I'm hoping one of you will be my life preserver. If you're there and you spot me with that lustful, glassy look in my eyes, know that the mantra has flown the coop and that you have my express permission to stop the madness. Please?!
*Though I had a toy sewing machine for designing doll clothes and such, I was gifted with my first real machine (a pale green Kenmore) for my 9th birthday.
No sooner than clicking through to the site and checking out this year's class offerings did I find what could be construed as a newbie sock knitter's dream: Nancy Bush on knitting "Vintage Socks." At the time I bought her book, I hadn't even cast on for sock number one. I just adored the adaptations of the old patterns, as well as the history of stocking stitching. But now? Now is different. I feel myself being sucked into the vortex and until I get to the other side, I'm totally enchanted by the art of crafting knitted foot and leg coverings.
I'm also going to learn how to "Design My Own Dream Sweater." Hopefully, I'll walk away with improved techniques for pattern writing and translating some of my sketches into the real thing. See, there's one design that I think is fantastic and that would look good on most women. I even have the yarn for it. Hope. Eternal. Etcetera.
Stitches doesn't hit these parts until August, so I should have plenty of time to plan just how much money I'll drop on the Market floor. Not like last year when I was so overwhelmed by all this lusciousness in one place that I went wild! This year, my mantra with be "discretion and containment."
For those of you who know me, I'm hoping one of you will be my life preserver. If you're there and you spot me with that lustful, glassy look in my eyes, know that the mantra has flown the coop and that you have my express permission to stop the madness. Please?!
*Though I had a toy sewing machine for designing doll clothes and such, I was gifted with my first real machine (a pale green Kenmore) for my 9th birthday.
posted by La Cabeza Grande at 4/11/2006 09:50:00 PM
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2 Comments:
I'm sooooo jealous! I would KILL to take that class with Nancy!! And I couldn't think of a better weekend, yarn shopping with you! I fear we could both be glassy-eyed and incoherent in a very short time!
I have always wanted to go to one of the Stitches shows, and since I live in the Midwest I am almost honor bound to go! That class with Nancy Bush sounds pretty tempting. If I am there, you will recognize me as the little chunky chick with arm fulls of yarn yelling, "Mine, mine!!!"
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