Mandala Shawl from GoddessKnits Today is Pi day so it has to be very lucky!! I posted earlier with pictures of knitted shawls following the principle of Elizabeth’s Zimmerman’s Pi shawl – gotta do one. Here is another shawl from Goddess Knits that follows the same principle. There is also Mandala 2. Lucky to have […]
Circle of Life Shawl from Fiber Trends Somehow, over the years, I have missed Pi Day. Maybe it’s because I’m not really mathematically inclined – give me a crossword puzzle over sodoku any day. Well, right there in the morning paper was the notice that March 14 was “celebrate Pi Day.” Now I do like
Okay, so there were one or two days that I really had trouble finding something NEW to write about. Most of the snow has gone – this is lucky, but that means the challenges (and luck) of getting out of the snowbanks are not there. Plus you can only celebrate the opening of clams once
It was a very lovely pre-spring day today and…. 1. Luckily I had quite a few orders for patterns. 2. I posted about Managing the Long Tail – something that I have been meaning to do for some time now. 3. Fortunately, I just had enough sleeves for all the patterns that I printed –
In 2004 Chris Anderson, then editor of Wired magazine, wrote a book entitled The Long Tail – “why the future of business is selling less of more”. It was an observation of a business bell curve that showed how a few very popular items are bought by a lot of people in a relatively short
It is slowly warming up and luckily today was quite bright, my other luck was…. Dion from Sheepish Knitworks 1. Luckily two sets of shelves that I moved from one room into another, at the office, fit against the wall. We are really re-arranging things a little – for more luck, of course! 2. Also
When was the last time you paid $565.00 for a snowdrop bulb? Well, apparently, this is the price that an e-bay auction fetched for Galanthus plicatus – a very special (and expensive) cultivar of the more common Galanthus nivalis, which is pictured here. Follow the link for the whole story. Actually I wrote several blogs
I’m going to do a week’s catch up & then I’ll be back on track, as my daughter has gone back to university and I have one less person in the house to cook & clean for etc…etc.. So I should have blog time! A week’s worth of luck was… 1. My friend, Arlene, dropped
I’m still playing catch up with my lucky days and here is the update.. 1. Luckily JM posted to my Facebook wall that National Knit in Public Day, June 11, 2011 is also National Yarn Bombing Day, so I decided to post about it! 2. Fortunately, although it has turned cold again -15C some days,
Want to stage a “Yarn Bombing?” These are great events which can be promoted on Facebook and Twitter and/or in your local media – newspaper, radio, TV. They bring loads of traffic to your store and create a lot of excitment and anticipation!! Yarn Bombing Just select a day – National Knit in Public Day is
