Crazy Crochet Class on January 30!

Hey there, groovy yarnsters. The Crazy Crochet class I had scheduled for late last year was postponed. The new date is:

Saturday, January 30th from 11:00 - 2:00

It will again be hosted by the urban trendsetters up north, Nancy and Sherri, at their Arthouse Mosaic Studio, this time at their NEW location:

610 5th Ave. S
Edmonds, WA
(next to Petosa's Grocery at 5th & Howell)

Here's the scoop:

Let your creativity explode! This is NOT your grandmother's crocheting...no worries about reading complicated patterns, counting stitches, or making edges line up, no stress! This is free-form crochet. Choose yarns and fibers in colors and textures that blend or contrast. Get wild & wacky with it, mix thick and thin yarns with smooth and textured yarn. Class fee is $45. A variety of luscious yarns and fibers included in class fee. Bring any yarn you'd like to use, scissors, a few crochet hooks of various sizes (between Size H and N).

To register email me at pestkaca@yahoo.com.

Crazy Crochet Class - December 10th!

With the help of my North End co-conspirators, Nancy & Sherri at the Arthouse Mosaic Studio, I'm offering a Crazy Crochet class on Thursday, Dec. 10th from 6 - 9:00.

Let your creativity explode! Crazy Crochet is fun, fast & fabulously funky. This is NOT your grandmother's crocheting...no worries about reading complicated patterns, counting stitches, or making edges line up...in other words, no stress!

You'll learn how to combine yarns and fibers in colors and textures that blend or contrast. Get wild & wacky with it, mix thick and thin yarns with smooth and textured yarn.

Class fee is $45. A variety of luscious yarns and fibers included in class fee.

Supplies: Bring any yarn you'd like to use, scissors, a few crochet hooks of various sizes (between Size H and N).

To register: Call Arthouse Mosaic Studio at 206.372.7531 or email pestkaca@yahoo.com.

Directions to Arthouse Mosaic Studio, 621 NW Richmond Beach Rd (above 20 minutes north of Seattle)

From I-5 N, take the 175th street exit and go left, make a right onto Aurora, then a left onto 185th Street (which becomes Richmond Beach Road) for 1 mile, then make a left into the mini mall behind the 76 gas station.

Crazy Crochet

I keep thinking I should submit this freestyle crochet technique as a book idea. I haven't really seen it anywhere else and it's so perfect for people who like to crochet but don't want to (or can't!) follow those confusing directions or count stitches.

Cats, yarn, prototypes and bubbles

I just found out that the deadline for submitting workshop proposals for the next Art Fiber Fest is in a few days. It's an annual art retreat organized by Teesha and Tracy Moore and it's basically a smaller, fabric/fiber version of ArtFest. I taught at Art Fiber Fest for its first two years and it was fabulously, wonderfully fun. Go here and look under Workshops to find out more.

Anyway, I'm completely booked tonight and my weekend is literally packed from 5pm Fri until 10pm Sunday. That means I've got to come up with samples, photograph them and write up descriptions on Wednesday and Thursday evening. Eeek!

Last night I spread out a bunch of yarn and fabric and started prototyping like mad. My beloved cats, not understanding the dire nature of my schedule, offered to help. Their version of helping is to turn skeins of yarn into tangled piles that resemble nothing so much as hairballs.

I found myself getting exasperated with them and then I took a few seconds to look into their furry little faces and I really saw how happy and playful they were being and really, how much I loved them. So I took a few minutes to play and cuddle with them before I went back to my project.

So...I am envisioning being in a bubble of "creativity, focus and ease" to carry me through the next few days. Stay tuned; I'll post said photographs of said prototypes as soon as I take them.