Ann Shayne's Blog

Dear Kay, I've got the worst case of the Rhinebeck blues. The best thing and worst thing is that Clara Parkes is coming to town in a minute on her book tour for The Yarn Whisperer. Tonight at Parnassus...

Dear Ann, Well, I did finish the seaming on Saturday. Very pleased with Whitby, and myself. It still needs a few finishing finesses, but it's all in one piece, it's wearable, and it fits. Expect to see it around...

Dear Ann, By 4:15, the second sleeve was on. Practice does make things speedier. It also helps not to watch YouTubes. I'm calling this a garment at this point. I am wearing it, therefore it's a garment. ONWARD (dammit)....

Dear Ann, It's 3:15. One sleeve is joined to the body of my Whitby. I know that seems like slow progress. But I had to work my way into the mood for mattress stitching row ends to stitches. A...

Dear Ann, OK so I'm liveblogging sewing up my Whitby. Here we go. Wheeeeee! 1 p.m. EST We have a pile of parts. The shoulders were joined earlier so that I could pick up stitches for the neck. May have...

Dear Kay, A postcard from Alice in California, who sends along a photo of the sort of thing that I imagine Californians do all the time: Dangle from their sunny staircases, displaying their incredible knitted blankets. It just looks so...

Dear Kay, OK so that color test thing totally sucks. At first I was all, "Neat! What a fun little test!" but now that everybody has taken the test and gotten everything from a perfect score to a deeply human...

Dear Kay, I know you're not on that Facebook thing, but there are moments over there that send one into a pleasant, time-eating reverie. I pass them along in the interest of, well, eating more of your time. This thing,...

Dear Kay, You know that thing? That thing you don't want to face into? I'm here today to report on a nagging thing that has been eating at me for WEEKS. As you may know, I have been motoring away...

Dear Ann, Oh jeez. What can I say. I have been away from here for far too long. I am well, I am knitting, the kids are back in school tomorrow, I am buying ever-lengthening pairs of men's (men's!) trousers...