DISQUS

I'm the new editor at Crochet World. I've been on the freelance design end since 85(!), so your on editing has been timely. CW is definitely old school, not that there's anything wrong with that, it's the audience I know and love. "Still", she says, tongue in cheek," it pays to keep an eye on those young folks."
The first time I wrote this, lightning hit the line and deleted it. Simultaneously, what was in my toaster started on fire. Maybe we shouldn't converse!

Are you going to CGOA next week? Maybe it says somewhere here, but I've missed it? If you do, we should meet and have a "new school, old school crochet" conversation-mm

Timely for me. Please keep on.

Good doggie!!!!!!

For want of a desk the war was lost? I don't think it's that simple. Because I've designed for 20+ years, there is a certain acceptance of disorder that comes with the territory. For instance: if I have one skein of every color of every yarn of several companies to swatch with, that's a lot of stuff to keep organized, especially since the design process requires mixing and matching and pretty soon there's mountains of stuff that insane deadlines don't give me the time to put away in a timely manner. If I ever win the lottery (which is NOT gonna happen because I don't even buy tickets)I would hire a clutter expert to design something that works. But for now, I'm settling for total chaos sometimes and an almost anal cleanup after whatever rush is happening.

The best cup of coffee I ever had was at that Tea Room on the North Fork in Greenport NY. I don't know what they did, but they used one of those French presses that you have, so it must be possible somehow. I wish every morning started there.

The knitting and crocheting will ALWAYS be more interesting than the manicure! I vote for manic stitching, not manicure.

I played violin as a child and had to have short nails. My solution was to bite them, which worked especially well when I was nervous. I helped with the Coats Learn to Knit/Crochet CDs as the person who oversaw what the hands were doing behind the camera and knew that my hands would never stand up to that close a scrutiny. I also never liked the feel of polish on my nails-it weighted them down. This is a lot of words just to say your hands look great. They do!

Isn't Peace Fleece the coolest thing?Beautiful work.

Even in my younger pre-old fogey days, I thought the best use of a ski lodge was to sit by the fire and knit, enjoying that everyone else was having fun on sticks in the snow, and I was toasty and getting "one more row" done. The snow areas are happy here in Maine this week, but my previous home in Syracuse has consistently more snow. Colder here (my toy poodle's feet will stick to the ground on the occasional 3 AM pee when SHE WON'T HURRY UP). When we lived on the edge of the Tug Hill plateau, it really did go from bare ground to the second story in a day and a half of straight snow. I think I prefer the cold.