Oh, I have been such a bad blogger...I've been really busy teaching a class (my first class of my very own!) and it's going well, or at least I think it is -- we'll see when my students turn in their first essay on Monday! I'm also taking my thesis class, so I've been working on my protocol, my research design, and my lit review.
The good news, though, is that Measure has really taken to daycare! He goes three days a week, just in the mornings while I'm teaching, and so far he has been totally happy to be dropped off each day -- I think he's very excited to be going to school like a big kid, especially since school has way cooler toys than the ones we've got at home!
Before school started, though, I did manage to get some design work in. I released the pattern for Le Facteur (Ravelry link), which I'd been working on for a while. (You can see more photos on Flickr.) My sister was nice enough to model for me:
Just a few days ago, another design of mine was published in Yarn Forward issue 18, a UK-based magazine (the link takes you to the preview page for the current issue on their Web site). It's a shawl called the Spider Stitch Shawl (Rav link), and I'm really excited about it -- this is my first published shawl design! The magazine is on sale now in the UK, and should be in bookstores here in the US in a few weeks. Yarn Forward also sells digital versions of the magazine, if you can't find a store that carries it near you. The current issue isn't up yet, but will hopefully be up in the next few days. Here are a few of my photos of the shawl, which, by the way, is knit in Malabrigo Lace in the "Olive" colorway, which, by the way, was totally lovely to knit with! It took less than two full skeins to knit the sample, which is about 64" long and about 30" deep.
This is so pretty Sarah! Hey, have you received anything from Sundara yarns lately? xo, ingrid
Posted by: Imgrid | September 18, 2009 at 07:41 PM
Oh, yes, I've been buying way too much Sundara lately...and she's got a
really tempting update on Monday, too! At least a yarn habit is better than
a drug habit, right?
Sarah
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:41 PM, wrote:
Posted by: Sarah Fama | September 18, 2009 at 07:45 PM
Congrats!
Posted by: Lola | September 20, 2009 at 06:27 AM
Thanks! :)
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 5:27 AM, wrote:
Posted by: Sarah Fama | September 20, 2009 at 12:02 PM
YAY, Sarah! Looks loverly . . . but where can I buy that magazine?
Posted by: Ava | September 22, 2009 at 01:59 PM
Thanks! Some Barnes & Noble stores in the US carry it, or you can buy a
digital version here . It's
actually pretty cool, and the pages print out nicely.
Or you could take a little mini-vacation to the UK and buy it at a shop!
(It's a tempting thought, isn't it?)
Sarah
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:59 PM, wrote:
Posted by: Sarah Fama | September 22, 2009 at 02:20 PM
OMG, congrats on being published!!! You deserve it. I don't know how you find the time to design along with school and Measure. I can barely keep it together.
Posted by: Oiyi | September 23, 2009 at 09:15 AM
Forgot to say that the shawl looks amazing! I am going to look for the mag at B & N. I have seen it there before.
Posted by: Oiyi | September 23, 2009 at 09:16 AM
Thanks! Luckily I was able to do all of the work for these over the summer
Posted by: Sarah Fama | September 23, 2009 at 01:19 PM
This is beautiful!
Rima
www.yarnydays.com
Posted by: Rima Aranha | October 07, 2009 at 07:52 AM