Tag: inspiration
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Inspiration for knitting design.
I am inspired by the recent Craftzine post about using your photographs to create color palettes. I’ve been thinking for awhile about designing something for fall with the different hues of my one true love: coffee. Colors like cafe au lait (slightly milky), black (like I drink it), and beyond. And I wanted to use…
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Reader Request: Inspiring places to work…
A reader wrote this week and asks: “Where is a place you find inspiring to work?” Of course, there are a number of those places, but only one recent experience came to mind. The other day in work, I needed a quiet spot to clear my head and try and get some last minute things…
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My own pretensions…
If you’ve never spent any time aiming for a little non pretentious pretension in your life, what are you waiting for? In all seriousness, I adore Melissa Sachs, who created the brainchild Non Pretentious DOT Com, a website dedicated to writers who want to freely write about whatever: sex, the law, bullshit (me!), books, music,…
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Inspiration: Promising…
Whilst most of the readers in this space already know that I spend a good deal of time on pursuits to make me happy like knitting, reading, and cooking, one of the things I feel strongly, passionately, about, is giving time to Boston’s youth. It’s a pretty simple endeavor to listen to a child. Last…
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Inspirations in color…
One last look at the gorgeous palette of creations from this year’s knitters! I beam with pride; and have dozens more photos to go through and add to this Flickr set before I can close a chapter on this year’s brilliant–and lifelong–fiber artists! Any ideas for things I can do with the kids next year?…
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Inspiration: Me as a horse…
The other day, I had some rowdy girls hanging out in my office because I have some highly coveted A/C and it was sweltering. Since they refused to focus on anything worthy like schoolwork–and I had work that needed attention–I decided to force them all into an “activity” if they were to stay and crib…
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Inspiration: Swedes, please!
Jens Lekman always inspires me to create; but there’s nothing better than this impeccable little snippet of him performing Arthur Russell’s “A Little Lost”. Don’t you just adore those old style mustard chairs that appear endless? Plus, he’s working a kalimba. Enough said. Adore, swoon, gobble it all here.
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Coding the knitwear…
This is by far one of my most favorite photos ever; taken sometime last June, on a swelterly sweaty day, Harry Cahill and I worked out images for the website I built but never actually got up and running. All that code…all that code… This shot was no doubt his idea for some section or…
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Inspiration is a verb…?
Another day, another obsession born. Enter A Verb for Keeping Warm, a yarn shop and blog that I recently discovered and now can’t stop reading and adoring. All of their beautiful yarn colorways are created with organic, sustainable, natural dyes, which makes them extra gush worthy. Plus, they have an extensive inventory of fibers. Yarns…
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Inspiring Lil’ Worm…
Photo Credit: Sandra Juto The ever-amazing Sandra Juto, whose blog I follow religiously, is producing these adorable little scarflets she’s calling Neck Worms. And they have inspired me to make my own scrap garter stitch scarf. I have loads of half skeins, etc., laying around, and it would be perfect for them–not that I really…
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