I was so busy at IK Knit lab this weekend that I didn’t take ANY photos! (Bad blogger!) I really did have an amazing time. The students were fantastic and enthusiastic, the venue was delightful, and the market was terrific. I did buy some treasures in the Market, and will have “show and tell” for […]
A friend sent me a private message, saying that she hadn’t heard of Craftsy before reading about it in my blog. She suggested that I give more explanation about what it is and how to use it, which I am delighted to do! Craftsy has only been around for a scant three years, so what […]
I love Argyle socks, but don’t you agree it is time for a new, classic intarsia motif for socks? Being Annetarsia means it has to be dead-easy. What makes an argyle diamond easy to knit is the simple diagonal line. The only way to make it easier is to extend that line into a spiral, […]
It is only one short week until my Craftsy class, “Next Steps in Intarsia” launches! Click on http://www.craftsy.com//ext/AnneBerk_Giveaway to automatically be entered for a drawing. On May 20th, Craftsy will randomly select someone to enroll in my new class at no charge! It’s that easy, and while you are at the Craftsy website you […]
Anna Jarvis created Mother’s Day in 1910, to honor her own mother, who cared for Civil War soldiers and worked tirelessly on Public Health issues. Her idea took off, but by the 1920’s it had become commercialized and Anna actively tried to rescind the holiday. It was too late. When I was a girl, my […]
I am relishing a quiet day. Not that I haven’t been busy and productive, but I am home alone with the cats this weekend – and catching up on a few things. Bold Move is progressing well. The butterflies are happy, and not getting into tangles. I have the MC isolated as much as possible […]
One of my greatest strengths is the ability to multi-task, but the past weeks have stretched my skills to the limit. Every aspect of my life has major, important things that need my constant attention, and I feel myself losing my grip. One to-do list isn’t enough. I have a to-do list to manage my […]
I’m working from home, today. The hours fly by, as I am not interrupted by things like “routine”. This morning I spent about an hour trying to find a pattern for a sweater I designed 4 years ago. I thought now might be a good time to tackle getting it published, now that the book […]
When my first child was born, and I counted his fingers and toes, heard him cry, and gazed into his beautiful eyes, I realized how anxious that I had been during my pregnancy, worrying that he (or she) would be healthy. Yesterday, I saw “Annetarsia Knits” for the first time. It isn’t bound yet, but […]
Annetarsia is basically intarsia for lazy knitters. This means that, in my world, I strive for the absolutely easiest way to knit everything. As I reported in the last blog post, Bold Move requires the MC be knit from the skein. This complicates the knitting, because the tethered MC tangles with the butterflies of contrast […]