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by Alison on February 15, 2012
I've been holding off on posting about it publicly, but once I saw the pictures from our de-stash party I figured I could start telling folks that I'm pregnant. Dan and I are expecting our first child this June, a boy, and we're super excited. |
Category Archives: Office Gossip
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by Knit Picks Staff on February 7, 2012
What's a de-stash party, you ask? It's a yearly event that we do here at the office. Three years ago a few of us employees here at Knit Picks were complaining about the huge stash of yarn/fabric that we have at home. Since it was the first of the year and clean-up resolutions were on our minds, we came up with a "de-stash" party idea. Both knitters and quilters participated, and we brought in the yarn/fabric we were willing to part with. After weighing the stash we each bought, all the goodies were dumped into a big pile. The person who brought the most was the first to dig in! |
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by Knit Picks Staff on December 21, 2011
Wow, the holidays signify the end of the year! Where did it go? 2012 is just a little over a week away and I haven't gotten my 2011 resolutions done yet! So it's a new year and a new list - out with the old, in with the new (or new again!). Has anyone started their 2012 New Years resolution list yet? Here at Knit Picks, we wish you a great New Year. Our wish for you is that 2012 be filled with creative crafting and lots of fiber fun! Happy Holidays & a very Happy New Year! |
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by Knit Picks Staff on October 26, 2011
In the beginning of October, I told you in a post about the hat I made for my granddaughter - as a reminder, here’s a picture of Kalyn and her big brother Cole. So after this little photo shoot, Cole asks me if I could make him a hat and of course I told him I would love to! "What would you like your hat to be?" I asked "Skulls!" He said - yes, he's 8 years old! |
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by Knit Picks Staff on October 4, 2011
I don't know if this has ever happened to you, but I was browsing through the kazillion of fun buttons at Joann's a while back and found this button "Cute as a button". Which describes my granddaughter. (I think that's what any nana would say! right?) (here's a picture of Kalyn -not big on smiling- with big brother, Cole) |
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by Knit Picks Staff on September 12, 2011
This last Saturday in Vancouver we had our warehouse sale. I decided to come early and take pictures. Since we were expecting a crowd, I rode my bike (I wasn't planning to buy anything - ha!) In case you weren't able to make it, this is what the warehouse looked like before the sale started: |
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by Stacey on September 1, 2011
(for many of you anyway) We hope you had a wonderful summer, now that the unofficial end to summer is this weekend! We had a BBQ with our sister companies to celebrate the sunshine (our last one got rained out - it's been a very cold summer here in Oregon/Washington) We had the 3 perfect ingredients for a great BBQ: We had food... |
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by Knit Picks Staff on August 31, 2011
A couple of weeks ago I posted that I had finally learned how to do 2-strand color work and continental knitting... well I have my first project done! Since I couldn't find a pattern that I was ready to tackle, I decided to create my own! |
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by Stacey on August 25, 2011
As the IDP Coordinator, one of the more fun parts of my job is doing photo shoots. Some designers aren't able to take photos that work on our website so every 6 weeks or so, we schdedule an IDP photo shoot where we photograph the projects on one of our models. Usually, when I do the shoots, there's about 20-30 projects that need to be photographed all in one day! My favorites shoots are the ones we can do outside - often times (especially from October - March) we aren't able to because it's too cold (or in most cases rainy!). But in the milder months, it's a lot more fun. While most of the photos you see in the catalog are shot in different locations, all the IDP shoots are done right around our office. Luckily, our offices are surrounded by nature rather than buliding so we have lots of options for backgrounds! Like we have pretty trees... |
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by Knit Picks Staff on August 19, 2011
I learned to knit continental style and fair isle after 35 years of "throwing"... see me do the happy dance?? |
