It's really very big in France

Hey, look, new stuff in the Etsy store! Check it out!

And now back to our regularly scheduled posting. I got a yen the other day to watch Fame (the TV show, not the movie, though I think the movie is fun, too) so I Netflixed it. Of course it's not available for instant viewing, so I'm having to actually put the DVDs into the player. How will I ever survive? I started a new disc today and suddenly noticed that I had the option to turn on not only English but French subtitles. Really? Someone took the time and expense to translate Fame the TV show into French? I'm not even sure how I feel about this. I mean really, it's not that good a show. I love it, but my favorite movie is Hudson Hawk. I'm well aware that I love crappy TV. Who knew the Frenchies did too? Then again, they have (had?) that whole unhealthy obsession with Jerry Lewis thing, too, so I guess it sort of makes sense.

I'm settling into the whole Etsy store thing -- not a lot of merch moving yet, but comparing the stats (I see you, Riff Raff!) to an article I read about how these things tend to build and crescendo before sales really start happening, I'm feeling pretty good. I'm adding new stuff all the time, and will actually be adding a couple of whole new product lines later this week (including at least one sock pattern!). I was a little unsure how I would feel about production crafting, since I know I absolutely hate production knitting (don't look for any handknit goodies in there any time soon!), but I've apparently chosen my projects well and am really enjoying it so far. It would be great if this ended up being lucrative enough to be a real full-time business.

Speaking of knitting, it's been weird lately. I'm working on a sweater for one of the women who takes care of Zack (and who cared for Becky when she was a baby). It's a fun sweater to knit, but I'm at that point I always get to, where the knitting isn't quite done, but I'm done with the knitting, if you know what I mean. So last Monday and Tuesday I knitted on it like mad and got it to the point where I'm ready to do the bottom hem...and haven't touched it since. I didn't knit at all for the rest of the week, even though I have about a gajillion swatches I need to be working on and a couple of pairs of socks I need to get done so I can publish the patterns, and a bunch of WIPs that I'd like to get done, too. Weird. I finally cast on one of the pairs of socks last night and am making good progress on those, but I need to get this sweater done. I may have developed a bit of an aversion to it since I discovered just as I was getting done with the bit I wanted to get done Tuesday that I had twisted the sweater at the chest join, necessitating the removal of the pick up row from the provisional stitches at the shoulder. (Yes, I realize that made no sense at all unless you can actually see the sweater I'm working on. Think of it as baking an apple pie but forgetting to put in the butter until after you have the top crust on. It's solvable, and not even that difficult to solve, but annoying and scary for a minute there until you realize it's easy to solve.)

posted by Laura Y. @ 7:19 PM