Yearly Archives: 2012

Willow Yarn Review

While I was in Chicago for Vogue Knitting Live (VKL), I met some amazing people. One of them was Claudia from Zealana. If you haven’t heard of this company, you need to follow this link and check them out! ZEALANA. Chances are one or more of their yarns will inspire you and is available at your Local Yarn Store (LYS). I went into a brief description of the company, it’s yarns, and the role opossums play in their development in a previous post. In this one, I’d like to review one of their yarns – Willow. Surprisingly, unlike most […]

Thanks Amy!

While I was in Chicago for VKL in October, I met a great lady named Amy Kaspar. In actuality, she met me, as I was getting my shoes shined and knitting. I’m very glad to say that even though she’s a resident of Chicago, she visited me two weeks ago! She was in Seattle for work, and made the trip up to Vancouver to visit with some friends – myself included. We had a great visit over lunch at The Foundation (a great vegetarian restaurant on Main Street) and she even wrote an article for the Chicago Examiner about […]

Calendar boyz are almost here …

Well, it’s getting close to that time of year and I’m pleased to say that the calendars are almost ready! It was a huge learning curve from last year and I think they’re even better this year. I know the entire process was a little easier anyway! So I did a shoot with Bruce last night and here are a few pics to show you what’s in store … The model above is Bruce – don’t you want to see him nekkid! 😉 He’s January 2013 and a great way to start off your year. I have to say […]

Don’t do it!

Okay, I have to take a minute out from the regularly scheduled program for a bit of a rant. If this is your first time on this blog, forgive me, but this issue has to be addressed. If you’ve been here before, you’ll know this isn’t my normal kind of posting, but again, this issue has to be addressed. Okay, with that disclaimer out of the way, here I go. Christmas is just around the corner and I know there are a lot of people who have been busy knitting for quite some time now in preparation for this. […]

Chicago … part 3

Well, it’s almost been a week now since VKL Chicago and I’m still buzzing from the experience. To say it was great would be an understatement! I’ve told you about quite a bit that happened but I haven’t really mentioned the Marketplace! There were Two Floors of vendors displaying their ware for purchases. I wish I could have taken a picture of every booth and talked to everyone, but needless to say there wasn’t enough time for me to do that as well as everything I did. I did get to see every booth though. I can’t possibly report […]