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By popular demand we have created a set of buttons you can use on your blogs, Web sites or emails to let others know about some of the many things Blue Moon is involved in! Below you’ll find the graphics, which you can download and put on your own server, and the HTML code if you’d rather paste that in.
<a href="http://blog.bluemoonfiberarts.com/"><img src="http://blog.bluemoonfiberarts.com/images/uploads/button_bmfa_blog.jpg" width="150" height="194" border="0" alt="Blue Moon Fiber Arts Blog" /></a>
These graphics are for the 2008 club—the 2009 graphics are coming soon!
First graphic: <a href="http://www.rockinsockclub.com/" title="I’m in the Rockin’ Sock Club!"><img src="http://rockinsockclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/rsc_member1.gif" alt="I’m in the Rockin’ Sock Club!" border="0" /></a>
Second graphic: <a href="http://www.rockinsockclub.com/" title="I’m in the Rockin’ Sock Club!"><img src="http://rockinsockclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/rsc_member2.gif" alt="I’m in the Rockin’ Sock Club!" border="0" /></a>
Are you planning to attend? Put the Sock Summit button on your site or profile and let others know so you can arrange to meet some of your favorite knitters in person!
<a href="http://www.socksummit.com/"><img src="http://www.socksummit.com/images/uploads/button_sock_summit.jpg" style="border: 0;" width="160" height="169" alt="Sock Summit 2009" /></a>
November 29, 2008
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We are buried in mounds of virtual paper. Lots and lots of amazing and intriguing class proposals from quite an impressive group of teachers. Thank you so much for getting these back to us within the deadline. It does help in keeping things moving along and on schedule. This brings us to the next step, going through all of this knit brilliance, organizing and framing it all into a cohesive and thorough representation of all that is sock knitting from cuff to toe, yarn to needles. We will be contacting teachers within the next few weeks to go over the details, ask and answer questions, sign contracts, basically setting this part of the stage. I think this is one of the fun parts like putting together a really big knit puzzle. This class piece goes here and look it fits so nicely with this one and then creates this space… (yeah, call the geek squad). There are also a fair amount of vendor information sheets that have come in. Debbi is going through these. If you have not sent yours in yet, please do so as soon as possible. Vendors can expect to hear from us towards the end of December with more information. Our wonder-web people at Hops Studio are working on the next phase of the website. Cat, Claire, Gail and e few others are pulling together a really exciting KAL that will start very soon and go through the beginning of July. We are checking the sign up info weekly. Vendor and sponsor info is sent out then, once a week. We are not ready to send out attendee info and probably won’t until after the beginning of the year. for updates please check here. This is the easiest place so far for us to do this. The moderators on the Ravelry group will do their best to answer questions and or bring them to our attention. You can also comment here or email a question to the appropriate addy from the sock summit update 1 post here. We do have hotel room blocks in the area with Sock Summit discount rates. We will put these up with the next website upgrade. This is why all of the hotels seem full we have them, so don’t panic. Well, I think that about covers it for now. Off to wade through all of this glorious sock knitting brilliance and talent. There is a lot. There are not enough words to tell you just how privileged I feel to be part of this knit tradition. ok…
November 23, 2008
I can’t sleep. Well, that is not completely accurate. I can sleep for about 4 to 5 hours then I am awake. Wide awake. Some eternal alarm has gone off and my brain is raring to go. (My body is so very unhappy with my brain.) This is not a new phenomenon for me. I have dealt with this all throughout my life. Usually it means that I have something weighing on me, am too stressed or I have some creative urge that needs expressing that just cannot seem wait. I believe this current bout of alertness is because I do not have enough time alone. Enough time and space where there is absolute no outside input. Also, I am in a pretty huge creative flux and these tend to make me restless. A powerful combination of internal need . So here I am at 3:58 in the am pst sitting on my comfortable couch in front of a roaring fire all cozy and toasty and quiet. (nice huh) The only sound is the keyboard and the crackling of the fire. Absolute bliss, I can hear myself loud and clear. Can follow a whole and complete thought process all the way through. I can sit here and stare into the fire for the minute or three it might take catch the hint of the next thread from that initial spark of an idea all the way down to its conclusion or at least right up against the next thread. I have been playing this need of mine and the time I have to chisel out of my life to get it, as a luxury and not a necessity. Recently in a conversation with a friend who has this same issue, ( I believe, there are a few of us ) we realized that we were portraying this all wrong. Since we both make our living around being creative than it would stand to reason that time for introspection, time to observe, time to process would be not just necessary but crucial. I would not be able to support my family without this time to be inspired by the world around me. The time to then process this stimulus and communicate it through whatever medium is my current canvas. The practical parts of life often take priority over this need. Running a business and a family, being a wife, a friend, a mother. I find it compelling and a bit disturbing, that although I seem to realize this as a crucial part of making this all work. I still do not list it as a practical part of it all. I am not seeing it thoroughly enough as something that makes the other pieces richer, deeper and whole, or to even exist. Where would we be without this part of life-truly? I for one would be up the proverbial creek without a paddle. Where would we be without the color, poetry and music of life? What would our days and worlds look like? I know one thing, some of us would be knitting with white yarn. Yikes!
The other natives here are stirring so it must be time to be practical.
November 14, 2008
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