Kim Werker What?

I worked two jobs the summer before my fourth year of university. It was the first summer since I was fifteen that I didn’t spend working at or attending a summer camp. I was twenty-one and living off campus in a perfect apartment with my best girlfriends. It was a killer summer.
One of the jobs [...]

In the last four days I have read a thousand pages of teen vampire drama-romance. And I didn’t even call in sick for work. I frankly don’t know how I managed it (a full day of traveling back to Vancouver from Oklahoma yesterday certainly helped).
Annette asked me what I thought of Twilight, and I thought [...]

Congratulations to Karla Baker and all those involved in designing Crochet Me for winning Bronze in the How-to Book/Crafts category of the 2008 PubWest Book Design Awards! Karla’s books (Felt Forward and Knitting Little Luxuries [both also from Interweave Press]) won gold and silver, respectively, too.
As consumers, we all know how dramatically we can be [...]

I wrote that post title as if I plan to write a roundup every week. But it’s not like I’m committing, or anything.
This week began in upstate New York for Passover with family. I love seeing my family despite my to-the-core loathing of my second hometown. Thankfully, I was only there for two days and [...]

[ October 27, 2007; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] Yarn Garden
1413 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland, OR
www.yarngarden.net
10 am: Crochet Granny Squares for the 21st Century workshop
1 pm: Book signing and interactive talk – bring your hook and yarn as I demystifies crochet techniques in an engaging talk about the creative possibilities of crochet. Designer and book contributor Megan Granholm will be attending, too!

[ October 23, 2007; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Urban Yarns Point Grey
Crochet Me Book Launch Event!
4421 West 10th Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia
(604) 228-1122
www.urbanyarns.ca

Join us at Urban Yarns for the Canadian launch party for Crochet Me: Designs to Fuel the Crochet Revolution. I’ll be signing books and demystifying crochet techniques in a talk about the creative possibilities of crochet: think drape, drape, drape, shaping in [...]

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Not crochet you. Crochet ME!, originally uploaded by kpwerker.

Now that it’s July, I feel more comfortable with the amount of time I’ve been spending thinking about fall. This fall, I’ll be hitting the road to promote Crochet Me, Interweave Crochet, CrochetMe.com, and, you know, just crochet.
I’m about to write a few posts, because that way the handy Events plugin will keep track of [...]

I’ve just signed up for a sock knitting class at Urban Yarns next Wednesday. It’ll be good to get out of the house to play with yarn - not for work. I can’t wait! DPNs be warned: I will master you, if it kills me.
I’ll have a full book recommendation wrap-up as soon as I [...]

At this moment, the Crochet Me book is the #5 ranked crochet title on Amazon.com. Five months before its release!
This is a nice way to end my work day.

PS To put this into perspective, in overall crafts rankings (and therefore in general rankings) the book is still significantly less popular than The Art of Painting [...]