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• Busy as a bee
  on Feb 23, 2013
  Well, it's come to this. I've made the decision to close down Yummy Yarn, as a blog. Moving forward, Yummy Yarn will be my pattern shop.Over the years, it served as my online home for discussing crafts, rock climbing, traveling,...
• Annie Can Knit
  on Oct 22, 2012
  I'm quite overdue for posts, aren't I, not to mention a blog upgrade, but I wanted to share this! Alana Dakos, better known as the knitwear designer behind Never Not Knitting, Coastal Knits, and Coastal Kids, is coming out with...
• Capitol Knits by Tanis Gray
  on Jul 23, 2012 in Graphic Design
  Tanis Gray contacted me last year about designing her self-published book. It was late fall, and I would be working around the holidays while she knit the samples and photographed them. An illustrator submitted his wonderful pen-and-ink sketches to b...
• Capitol Knits by Tanis Gray
  on Jul 23, 2012 in Graphic Design
  Tanis Gray contacted me last year about designing her self-published book. It was late fall, and I would be working around the holidays while she knit the samples and photographed them. An illustrator submitted his wonderful pen-and-ink sketches to b...
• Attention, Janet Kim
  on Mar 22, 2012
  I have a pattern for you, but your email keeps bouncing it back!Please contact me and use another email address that is not the one you used to purchase the pattern.Thanks very much! MJ...
• Attention, Janet Kim
  on Mar 21, 2012
  I have a pattern for you, but your email keeps bouncing it back!Please comment to this blog post and use another email that is not the one you used to purchase den Arend.Thanks very much! MJ...
• On the flip side
  on Mar 6, 2012 in Art
  March! Oh, how time flies. I've worked on quite a few projects, but sorry to say that I can't possibly blog about some of them, at least the ones with NDAs attached. But someone else has been very, very...
• On the flip side
  on Mar 6, 2012 in Art
  March! Oh, how time flies. I've worked on quite a few projects, but sorry to say that I can't possibly blog about some of them, at least the ones with NDAs attached. But someone else has been very, very...
• 2011 Book List
  on Dec 31, 2011 in Books
  In my 7th year of participating in the 52 books meme, I read 183 various non-fiction, biography, fiction, craft, travel-themed, food-related and graphic design books, and graphic novels. 2011 was such a crazy busy year that the one thing I...
• Coastal Knits: Book design
  on Oct 19, 2011 in Coastal Knits Knit Designers
  # When Alana Dakos and Hannah Fettig first approached me to work on Coastal Knits, I immediately said Yes! As a freelancer, roughly two-thirds of my work is done at home, in a vacuum; my interaction with clients is...
• Coastal Knits: Blog tour schedule
  on Oct 12, 2011 in Books Coastal Knits Knit Designers Knitterly Things
  # Today two pallets landed on Alana's doorstep, which means Coastal Knits will soon be in your hands. (In mine, too!) Pre-orders are still open until midnight Friday, so if you're interested in the book, the yarn giveaway, or...
• Coastal Knits
  on Sep 9, 2011 in Books Coastal Knits Knit Designers Knitterly Things
  # I can finally break my (blog) silence on what has been a fantastic summer design project for two popular knit designers. Presenting Coastal Knits: A Collaboration between Friends on Opposite Shores by Alana Dakos of Never Not Knitting...
• St Leg'!
  on Jul 28, 2011 in Brooklyn Tweed: Wool People PATTERNS St Leger Hat and Cowl
  I mentioned this project to just a few people while I was working on it, and since it's finally been published, here it is! (Sorry for the crappy pictures! I'll take better ones when I get them back.) Wool...
• Garter Stitch
  on Jul 23, 2011 in Brooklyn Tweed: Wool People Knitterly Things St Leger Hat and Cowl
  The yarn colors remind me of St Léger: grey, ecru, brown. Limestone. Mmmmmmmmmmmm. I must be dreaming! #...
• Echo chamber
  on Jul 21, 2011 in Travels
  Just finished one deadline and I'm on to another! And good things are coming tomorrow! At least I hope so! # This was taken aaages ago in 2007. I overnighted in Perpignan having driven through the Pyrenées (scary bendy roads,...
• 16e etage
  on Jul 14, 2011 in Travels
  # Vive la France! I read ahead on the Tour de France website about the upcoming stages and discovered that it will indeed be passing through our ole neck of the woods! Just by a hair, really, in the...
• Brain, brain
  on Jul 7, 2011 in Travels
  I've been *quite* busy with work, it seems I lost a vital part of my anatomy. # Luckily, I found it! Apparently it's half a kilometer.... that way. (Taken April 2008; passing by Brain en route from Fontainebleau [bouldering!] to...