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Top 100 Science Fiction Book List

By Liz On 24 April, 2014 · Add Comment
Who says this is the top 100 science fiction book list? National Public Radio (USA) does. NPR recently conducted a poll where readers got to pick their favorite science fiction books. Though the list is available at their web site, it is in a straight-line format that is a bit hard to navigate if you [...]
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New: Articles Section

By Liz On 24 April, 2014 · Add Comment
Wow … has it really been a full year since my last blog post? I’m starting a new category/section on my blog called Articles. It will contain various articles I’ve written in the past, mostly for Squidoo. Squidoo was an excellent place to post articles (which they call lenses) about virtually anything. Many people used [...]
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Applying a Knitting Pattern to a Project

By Liz On 24 April, 2013 · Add Comment
This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, working title: Color Knitting Patterns from the 1960s. Here are directions on how to put a color pattern on your project. The information works for stitch patterns as well. To keep things simple, the sample project will be a simple iPad sleeve, made in two pieces and [...]
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Knitters Were Smaller in 1962

On 20 April, 2013 By Liz
On Size Charts in 1960s Knitting Magazines For my upcoming book, I’ve been reading a lot of 1960s era knitting magazines, Since the book will be a pattern book of stranded colorwork patterns, I’m focusing mostly on the patterns, but I am noticing a lot of other interesting things, too. Today I’m discussing pattern sizing [...]
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I’m Teaching Chain Mail Classes at H3XL Maker Space

On 11 March, 2013 By Liz
Learn Chain Mail During Spring Break I’ve been teaching chain mail at Voyagers, a local home school co-op since September. It’s been lots of fun, though the classes are for Voyagers members only. I’m always amazed at the beautiful items my students make. During April break, I’ll be teaching a 5 day chain mail class [...]
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Coming Up for Air

On 25 October, 2012 By Liz
Breathe. Breathe. Once again … breathe. Ahh … that’s better. Huh? Those of you who know me, online and off, know my life has been topsy-turvy for about 2 years now. Details not necessary, but I can summarize that I’ve had to learn a lot about abuse of power, family law, home school, driving in [...]
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Kitchener Stitch Ebook Cover

Kitchener Stitch, My First Knitting Ebook

On 16 August, 2012 By Liz
My first knitting ebook is now on sale at Amazon and Smashwords. Kitchener Stitch is a short book describing how to work Kitchener stitch (also known as weaving or grafting), a technique used to join knitting invisibly. For those of you who don’t knit, Kitchener stitch is most often used to seamlessly finish the toes [...]
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Chain Mail Book for Nook

On 3 August, 2012 By Liz
My first ebook, Introducing Chain Mail, is selling nicely at Amazon. Yesterday, I moved Barnes and Noble distribution from Smashwords directly to PubIt. B&N’s ebook publishing system. Smashwords works fine, but they are not the best with timely sales reporting, and I’m a bit obsessive over that. If anyone has read and liked the book, [...]
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Chain Mail E-book and Cover

On 9 July, 2012 By Liz
I’ve been teaching chain mail classes for 4 years now, both at the Arisia science fiction con and at Voyagers home school co-op. I had developed images for my instruction sheets, and realized I had the material for an e-book on making chain mail. I designed the cover, too. Ebook covers are tricky, they have to [...]
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New Kid on the Blog: Portfolio Posts

On 9 July, 2012 By Liz
I’m starting a new section in my blog, which works with my new website framework. If you go to my Portfolio page, you’ll see a carousel “slide show” of my graphic design and web design work. The way this slide show works is that I select a post category, and all the featured images from [...]
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