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Look what I found in my inbox this morning! Someone (thanks, Shannon!)saw my book on the actual shelf in an actual bookstore!! I haven’t been to the local B&N in a while to check for myself…but, as Joey Lawrence always used say, “Woah!”
I just had the thought: “I talk about myself WAY too much on this blog.” Then: “Um. It’s a BLOG.”
SO…more about ME.
I was just sent the most beautiful package of yarn from Tilli Tomas. We met while I was working on the Stitch Diva Simple Knitted Bodice (three links) pattern and have become friends. 
Tracy has come up with a new color called “jade” that’s a blend of really rich greens. The sequins on the “disco lights” are even green.
I love that disco lights!! I’m like a magpie…if it’s sparkly I MUST have it. So, we’ve been working on some things together…like the wrap cardigan pattern that I’m currently in the process of getting sent out to my TNNA people! (I’m sorry, TNNA people! This is taking MUCh longer than I imagined.)
I’m sure I’ve told you this before, but wherever my husband I go out to eat, before long we’re treated like regulars…and one time I asked him, “Why do you think people in restaraunts always remember us? Down to what we order?” And he said, “Because you’re so flashy.”
He didn’t say it in a mean way at all, just very matter-of-fact. At first, I was a little offended. I’m from Iowa. We are NOT flashy. But…he’s right. If I’m not sparkling, I’m wearing pink and yellow argyle socks with green sandals…or a long white leather pimp coat with a fur collar.
I was at a conference the past few days, and one day someone even said to me, “That’s a quite a shirt. What is that? Embroidery?” Well. That’s quite the polar fleece that you’ve been sporting the past four days. What is that? Goretex with Thinsulate? (He was nice, actually, and I think actually kinda liked the shirt…but it was slightly unusual/out of place at that particular venue.)
Another standout moment: Some of our research is done at a facility that’s arranged in a big ring. (To remain nameless, so this can’t come back to haunt me later when I apply for jobs) They provide you with bicycles so you can get from point to point in the ring faster than if you had to walk the mile from point to point.
One time that we went, I brought my rollerskates and was skating around the ring. No big deal, right? What’s skates compared to a bike? Is it really that weird? YES. Apparently it was the freakiest thing that people had seen in a long time. People took my picture, and they had to call the safety people to see if it was ok, and it was HUGE deal. (It was deemed NOT ok, safetywise, and I had to take them off.)
I heard a really funny story from a girl I went to grad school with (in another department…not mine.) She went over to the lab one night really late to pick up a notebook while she was studying for her comps or something. She walked in and the entire lab floor was covered in newspaper. Like, every inch of the floor.
She looked around for anything spilled, or broken glass…nothing. So she started picking up the paper as she walked back to her desk for the notebook, and there sitting at the computer was one of her labgroup members. In longjohns and trench coat. And that’s it. No shirt, no shoes. (This was the same guy with the Playboy belt buckle and matching Playboy backpack.)
She said she didn’t even ask. Just got the notebook and backed slowly away. Later, we tried to piece together what might have happened…but never were really sure. Did he spill something on his pants, shirt, and shoes and have totake them off? Was he in bed and had to rush over to check his email and forgot to put shoes on so he spread out the paper? Was it just too hot in there?
There are varying degrees of ‘flashy’…
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6 Responses to “Book! In the WILD!”
Dear Stefanie,
I just received your book this morning and I like it a lot. My favourite is the Elisabeth Bennett cabled cardigan.
Now my question: I’d like to write a review of your book in my knitting related blog and show some pictures of the projects. For you are the copyright holder I ask you for permission to do so. Of cause I won’t show parts of the instructions, just the pictures so my readers can see if they like it as much as me and buy the book. So you would get promotion in Germany with no costs
Lots of greetings and I’m looking forward to your next projects.
Martina Hees
Hamburg, Germany
I love your book! It just came yesterday from Amazon, and I crawled in bed with it last night. Such beautiful things - I can’t decide what to make first!
Congrats on the book! Can’t wait to get my copy. The addition of the rollerskatingwhileresearching story makes this my favorite post ever. EVER!
[…] I spotted Stefanie’s book “in the wild” for the first time while hunting down copies of knit.1 and Adorn mag the other day. (Link is to the cameraphone photo I took for her that she posted on her site) […]
I bought one at Borders today! VERY exciting.
I probably would have bought it without even opening it because, dude, how could it be bad? 
But then I flipped through it and went “oh, yum.” I flipped through the Twinkle book shelved next to it, and laughed my head off (in WHAT world is a 30″ bust a ‘large’? That wouldn’t fit my skinny 17-year-old cousin the ballet dancer, because she is a girl and she has, you know, breasts. Weird.) Not that there was ever a contest, I was going to buy yours, duh - but if there had been, you definitely would have won. 
Isn’t the sizing of that book interesting and timely, with all the media hype about models’ body sizes and health issues?