FREE Knitting Daily Crochet eBook

I love Knitting Daily. I love their free knitting patterns. I love their reprints of old Interweave Knits patterns.

And now they've released a small ebook of free holiday crochet designs. Is that a great group of crafters or what?

You'll find it right here. Have fun.

Halloween Contest 1 of 2

Because there's nothing like a little excess to cheer you up during tough times, I figured why not have two drawings on Halloween instead of a measly old one?

And because I'm too lazy (and cold) right this minute to mull over my stash and decide what goes next, I'm offering the complete Knitting Daily DVD first season collection to one lucky winner.

You know the drill. Email me with KD in the subject header and around this time tomorrow night the Great and Mysterious Random Number Generator will make its choice. These things are beyond human ken. They must be respected. You don't mess with the RNG.

Check back in an hour or so for #2, okay?

Things I Forgot To Tell You

I can't believe I forgot to tell you that the contest winner will be announced Sunday morning, June 1st.

Or that a new contest will begin Sunday afternoon!

And I also can't believe I forgot to tell you that the very plain, very simple Fiesta La Boheme "Famous" shawl that I knitted for my friend Kali at Christmas went on a little trip to Cleveland last month. Kali and I were both a little miffed that the shawl racked up more frequent flyer miles this year than we have.

Here's the back story: I hadn't been checking into Ravelry very often at all (not much point when you're not knitting and you're not typing) but something drew me in one day in early April and I found a message from a lovely woman named Jaime from KNITTING DAILY TV. She wanted to know if the Famous Shawl would like to make a guest appearance on their new PBS knitting show!

Yes, the shawl. Not the knitter! Not the recipient! We were insanely jealous but that didn't stop The Shawl from jumping on the nearest Fed Ex plane and jetting off to Ohio for a little bright lights, big city action.

If you scan these photos, you'll see the shawl draped over a table in the middle of a whole lot of other shawls.

PBS will begin running KNITTING DAILY TV sometime in July. I don't know when this episode will appear but Kali and I are both very happy for The Shawl. Who knows? Maybe The Shawl will become a star and we can say we knew her when.

I can see the headlines in PEOPLE Magazine now: Garter Stitch Shawl Makes Good.

I just hope Kali and I get 10% of the gross . . .