I don’t talk about crochet all that much over here. Not because I don’t like to (I do and did it exclusively for years) but because I’m not often moved by crochet the way I am by knitting. I don’t know what that says about me. I should ask Dawn. She’ll know. Regardless, I was contacted by Gooch & Gooch to see if I’d like to review the book and raffle it off on CraftLit. I checked out the world of Kristi...

So, I wrote this book. Then I tried to figure out how to help spread the word (because that’s the biggest fear, right? That we’re all just typing into the echo chamber of our own mind). And then my husband says, “Socks.” And then he gets this devilish gleam in his eye and says slowly, “Sock. Puppet. THEATER!”   We’ll table that last bit for a moment. First, let me introduce you to Rosie’s...

There are some books and movies I’ve mentioned on the podcast lately, but I wanted to be sure to mention them here, too. Friends are doing great things and I thought you might want to take a peek. My friend Dave Garret is a force of nature. I met him while watching and working on my husband’s plays lo’ these many moons ago. Well, now Dave turned his eye to film making. Even more fun for me, the movie stars my friend from...

Lotsa socks! That’s what I’ve been working on, of late. Lotsa socks to go with my new novel. I roped in Meg Warren who designed Tristan and Isolde from WWMDfK? and the two of us have been going great guns, getting inspired by the characters in my new young adult (YA) novel Grounded, and generally having a free-for-all sock explosion in our heads. Whyfore? Because we’re going to be rolling out a new series of patterns inspired...

By Steve Goodier of www.LifeSupportSystem.com __________ A sky-diving instructor was asked, “How many successful jumps must a student make before he or she can become certified?” He answered, “All of them!” Sky diving, however, is the exception. Is your life built on a series of successes? Do you usually attempt something new and immediately succeed, then succeed again and again? Or more likely, do you find that it is the other way around? Our...