I’m taking the month of September to carry out an idea I’ve had for a few years – to put together a collection of patterns with a theme. The working title is “Baby Shower Knits”, and the patterns are arranged by the amount of time you have to knit a gift before the baby shower. […]

We’re going to start shooting more knitting videos soon, including mattress stitch, buttonholes, 3-needle bind-off, and more. What technique(s) would you like to see? Leave me a comment with your suggestion. xo S t a c i

What do you get when you combine 15 awesome women, their knitting, wine, and brownies? Around here we call it Sweater University, a class I taught all summer long. After meeting every-other Thursday since June, last night was our final session. We called this session our “party”, which meant there was even more wine involved. […]

I often teach knitting classes here at my home. On class nights I always put the dogs in my bedroom behind a baby gate and give them delicious new chew toys to keep them entertained. During these classes, it never fails that one knitter will say, “Aww! Let them out! They’re such good dogs.” Then […]

Ugh. I recently noticed that the feed address for subscriptions to verypink was automatically changed by Feedburner due to the feed size being over 512k. WHATEVER. I don’t understand what happened, but I think I’m on my way to fixing it. What I do know is that I lost most of you as subscribers. I […]

Blazing Texas heat, overworked air conditioner. I’m working from home about half the time, and my dogs want in-and-out, in-and-out, every hour that I’m here. That’s my normal summertime routine, and I’m used to it, but I realize that it’s crazy. I decided to count the number of times in a day that I stop […]

Two posts in one day. Ca-razy! Anyway, just a note to let you know that I fixed the comments. I didn’t realize there was anything wrong (other than the fact that you folks strangely stopped leaving comments) until I was told that leaving a comment required logging in. Boo! It must have happened when I […]

I read somewhere that Basenjis are difficult to train because they need to repeat an action or hear a command FORTY times before they learn it. This is complete hogwash. Basenjis only need to experience something ONCE for it to become a habit, provided it is a habit they enjoy doing. The video below is […]

Back on December 14, 2007, I started a photography project. One self-portrait a day, posted to flickr, for one year. I decided to do it for two reasons. First, as a diary. I took the photos I wanted to show myself when I’m older. Second, to get better at photography. On December 14, 2008 I […]