Mood:  not sure

I'm not going to spend a long time telling you what happened to blogging in 2010.  A major problem I ran into besides facebook and lack of time is a limitation on showing my designs.  After my beginner's luck submitting my Xenocryst hat to Knitscene. I decided to submit my designs to various regular and email publications.  Most of them don't want your designs published on Ravelry or your blog before submission.  They consider this published.  I have to laugh that my seldom-read blog is publishing, but I'm playing along. 

If I can't talk about my knitting designs, I couldn't figure out what other fiber things to blog.  I almost gave up, but came up with some new ideas and here I go.

First-let's discuss Lucy Neatby and her wonderful pattern Bubbles Scarf. 

I loved this pattern and so has the rest of the knitting community.  It is the notoriously slow double knitting, but I thought this would be the pattern to start double knitting on.  I joined a Ravelry KAL and used one of my hand-dyed sock blanks for one side and a pretty navy yarn for the other side.  I knit for about 3 inches and figured it out sort of and then became distracted.  I'd love to finish it up and then do my own double knit design.  Let's see how that works out in 2011.  Meanwhile if you want to learn some very interesting knitting techniques in innovative, colorful and approachable patterns check out   http://www.lucyneatby.com/  I also follow her blog at http://happystitches.wordpress.com/   I have several of her DVD's.  I read in a magazine, Vogue Knitting, I think that Lucy is planning to offer part of her DVD's as downloads on Patternfish.  This might work great for me, since I'm not that good at sitting down and watching DVD's.  On the other hand when I want to look at a technique I could find it on my new computer with lots of storage space.  Happy New Year  and we'll see you this year.  Linda Shelhamer