I’ve been knitting, but it’s been projects I’m designing for the March 1 issue Spindlicity, of which I am the Knitting Editor. So I can’t show you here. But I can give a few hints:

I’m working with handspun yarn. Some is my own, some is our editor Janel’s. One item is for your coffee, another is for your head (but it’s not a hat). That’s all the hints.

However, I also have some Bartlettyarns Fisherman in Dark Sheeps Gray, which I bought at Schoolhouse Press as “Sheepswool.” I’m dyeing it with Cushings in Turkey Red, which is coming out a deep claret sort of color over the dark natural brown. I have 3 pounds of it, and the biggest pot I have can only take 1 pound at a time, so this is a multi-day process. The plan is for a simple, quick cardigan. But of course, that was the plan for that alpaca stuff, and that’s languishing on the needles. (But I’ll get back to that soon, probably before I start on the Sheepswool.)

I think I’ve finally gotten it through my skull that I can’t live on teaching knitting. Not yet, anyway. I have to go out and get a job-job, exactly the sort I hate. I’m still procrastinating on that, but I can’t much longer because I’m so broke. It looks like I have to try to make a name for myself by getting some designs published in the knitting magazines, while working on my book. If my designs are a hit, then I can probably get teaching gigs more easily.

So I have to write up some of my existing designs, and get some new ones going. And look for a job. And once I get the job, work every day. And work on my book. I’m gonna be one busy broad.

In the meantime, I’m going on the assumption that when the writing is done, I’ll be too broke to hire a book designer and will have to do it myself, so I’m acquainting myself with Adobe InDesign, with Adobe InDesign CS2 Classroom in a Book, which I got with a gift certificate my brother gave me for Christmas, so it was free for me! That’s the way (uh-huh, uh-huh) I like it (uh-huh, uh-huh). My Amazon Wish List (see link in sidebar) now includes some books on book design too. I used up the gift certificate already, so these are for down the road, when I have some sort of income. Or another gift certificate.

Onward.