Monthly Archives: September 2011

Pinterest and the C words

By Jen | Published 09/30/2011

Pinterest: Where creativity means a conflict between copying and control. There have been some discussions recently about Pinterest and the etiquette of pinning handmade items. It first started with a post that described How to Suck at Pinterest on the Salt City Spice blog. Katrina started with the question: “Artists, designers, & crafters are continually [...]

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Caught up in the craze sweeping the knitting nation

By Jen | Published 09/26/2011

I’m a late adopter…which sounds better than painfully unhip, accurate as the latter might be. It’s not that I’m not a bandwagon jumper; it’s more that I like to give the wagon a generous head start. And this is as true in knitting as anything else. February Lady Sweater? The pattern had been out for [...]

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Making it theirs, Part 1

By Jen | Published 09/12/2011

Read Part 2 here, Part 3 here, and Part 4 here. Haven’t been doing much knitting recently. It’s not that I haven’t wanted to, but I’ve been spending most of my days recently playing with paint. The kids are at the age where they really have definite interests (that don’t change on a daily basis) [...]

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