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2010: Design Oddessy

2010 is going to be a great year. I am participating in Design Informer’s daily design challenge (follow it on twitter via #design365). You can see my posts at design365.maryfranwiley.com. I wrote a design manifesto that I plan on following as well. I am starting up a knitting design & inspiration blog (not a full [...]

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YarnCon 2009, Robots and photos!

Oh, has it been a year since YarnCon? I’, afraid it had been.  This year was a little sad. There was no cousin Christine. There was no knitting fiend cousin Beth (I am sorry I created that monster) Here is a preview of the yarn I got (I can’t post the rest because of Christmas [...]

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Real World: Chi-town.

So this is life.  A full time job that has no relevance to who I am or where I want to be (other than the miniscule amount of French I use once a week), a half-time course load that keeps me out of the house til 10:30 four nights a week and a complete lack [...]

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YarnCon 2008

I went to YarnCon.  And it was fantastic, except for the atm eating my cousin’s debit card and me dropping $28 worth of yarn somewhere.  But overall, it was pretty fantastic. I bought a wee bit of yarn.  A bit of banana silk… and a bit of merino… I was looking for alternative fibers, but [...]

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