My Fashionable Life

I definately want to see that cable cardi when you have done it.

Congrats on the book!

I want to see them all. But especially the leaf colourwork. What a stunning idea!It reminds me of watered silk wallpaper. It's beautiful.
And don't be silly, of course we won't have knitted through our stashes by 2009 and of course it's going to be a fantastic book.Congratulations!

Btw finished Flicca.Hurrah!It's great but will be even better once blocked.

Goodness gracious--I haven't ever been this excited about a blogger getting a book deal. I don't want to make you nervous, but there will be at least 1 knitter reading that book.

Oh, my dear Anna, I am so happy for you! I am so happy for me, as your book will be a treasure, no doubt. I have every confidence. Can I pre-order now???
; )

Congratulations on your book deal. That's awesome. I'm sure your book will be wonderful. I love all of your designs.

Woo! Congrats on book! Will definitely be buying it, as my stash will last well into 2010.

A Book - How exciting. Congratulations! I always look forward to seeing your current projects. Even your swatches are beautiful.

congrats!! I know your book will be full of stylish and gorgeous knits.

Congratulations and good luck on your book!

Wow, congratulations!! I'm so happy for you!

How did you know I was making macrame plant holders with fimo beads? That is just uncanny. There will be no danger of running out of stash or shortage of knitters. Lovely swatches, I am especially loving the zig zag.

Congratulations on the book, Anna! I think you have a great sense of style, and I'm looking forward to seeing your book in print. Even if it's a long way off!

Re: stranded colorwork and yarn dominance. I like the subtlety that you have there, but because you want more oomph, you'll have to make whatever yarn that wasn't the background color, the background color. This post will make sense to you:

http://nonaknits.typepad.com/nonaknits/2006/01/yarn_dominance.html

congratulations on securing the book deal. i will be eagerly awaiting its release, regardless of the status of my stash. good luck and enjoy the spring weather!

Anna - I am so happy for you! How exciting with a book! Did you know that I found your web site by searching on my own first name (same as yours) and yours was the first blog to come up! I don't knit, but love reading about knitting!!

Congratulations on your book! I'm very excited for you and rest assured, my obsession will not have faded in only two years. Yay!

Anna, I'm so excited for you. It must feel very good (and scary) to have such a big goal, and the deadline not so far off as it may seem. It hurts to have to wait two years to see your book but I know it will be worth the wait, and every bit as lovely and as elegantly written as this journal.

Don't be too much of a stranger though, hmm?

How exciting, I am so pleased for you. And scared at the same time. However, if you are anything like me, you will procrastinate until the very last minute, then be amazed at how much you can achieve in a small amount of time....and then wonder how much else you could have achieved had you started earlier! I have just accepted this fact now, it makes life so much easier!!!! Well done x

Congrats on the book. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Many congrats! That is very exciting. PS. That alpaca swatch looks suspiciously like a stitch design I have in my head and can't work out, so I am very excited to see what you do with it!

Congratulations! I knew there must be a book in the works. And I just walked into my office from sowing my seeds for this summer -- three kinds of basil and some cherry tomatoes!

Congratulations! I'm amazed that it will take so long to come out though - what do they do with a manuscript for a whole year?

Good luck with getting the colourwork to click - maybe you need to up the contrast a bit? I've been frustrated before by colours I thought would be perfect and then just melted together.

And macrame you think? Really? ;-)

A pattern book of your designs? Where do I pre-order? :)

I don't think I've commented here before, but I wanted to say congratulations on your new book, and I'm sure it will be a success. And also to observe that once something takes on the appearance of work, it immediately becomes the object of my procrastination, even if it formerly gave me great pleasure to do it. Have fun in your garden!

Congratulations! It's very exciting. I know it will be wonderful.

Ah yes, there's always macrame...or paint by numbers. Looking forward to the book - and getting Flicca sewn up. I started our seeds today as well here in NY in the cold frame. Happy Spring!

We're not going anywhere. Come Spring 09, I'll be in line at the bookstore. :)

Congratulations!! That's wonderful news, I can't wait to read it. :)

Congrats on the book deal and thanks for the tantalizing peek at those swatches. I guess we'll have to be patient!

Oh, I'm confident I have enough stash to knit beyond 2009. Can't wait to see your book!
And colourwork in pure silk? WOW.

Congratulations from across the pond! Your wonderful and unique designs will definitely make for a "must buy" book!

I add my voice to the chorus of excited knitters. A book full of your stylish designs and elegant words is a book I want in my collection.

As for my stash running out before 2009... I think my stash can outlast me. And I am only 25.

Congratulations- very exciting news. I had been thinking surely such an undertaking was only a matter of time! I hope your work with the needles and the seeds both bear abundant fruits!!

"...so I take some comfort in knowing that no actual knitter will ever read said book..."

My sweet beeehind - I've already popped the date into my Outlook calendar! I am so looking forward to seeing your work.

Darn! The last commenter was me *blush*

How lovely that you will have a book! If it is anything like your blog, it will be truly special. I do hope that one of the patterns you will post on your self-publish will be the Blustery....I am still wishing to knit that truly simple and oh, so British vest! (She selfishly wished this, knowing full well that Anna was overwhelmed already :)

Congratulations and I look forward to purchasing your book in Spring of '09. That's such a long time away, hope that little vest pattern will be written and offered for sale as consolation.

I knew you were busy! Sweet news!

Congratulations Anna! How wonderful for you!

Anna- yippee, a book! I agree with you about the green stranded swatch-- from far away it *sort of* looks like a leafy pattern, but when I opened the picture up bigger, it just looked like varigated yarn.

i hate to tell you this...but i am expecting my own personal signed copy! i will accept nothing less.

congratulations my dear...i am absolutely thrilled for you. i have said to you from the start that you deserved great things!

Oh goodness. This is good news. But does this mean that the most recent vest won't be available on your website? I've been checking ever since for the updated pattern.

Much in the way of congratualations in order for landing a book deal! I will still be knitting... either a reflection on my general slowness or the size of my stash, though I am not sure which will win that distinction.

Congrats Anna! I will be reading your book even if I have taken up basket weaving for snake charmers!

Oh, Anna, how WONDERFUL! Yeah for you. Of course we will all read it and of course it will be a fabulous success. Your designs are so clean and wonderful . . . even if knitting where on the "outs" your book would surely bring it back "in" once more. I KNOW it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, YEAH for YOU!!!!!

Congratulations! And I hope you enjoy the process of writing and publishing a book. It sounds very exciting.

Congratulations Anna! You SO deserve this book contract and I SO look forward to its publication.

Hey, I'll read it! Great job getting a book deal.

Congratulations on the book! And enjoy the gardening - there's nothing like procrastination to turn mundane chores into fascinating experiences.

I wish you good luck and that you enjoy every minute of producing your book in between the gardening and knitting, or perhaps that should be vice versa.

How wonderful! Congratulations and best wishes for a soothing and low-stress creation process for the book. I'm really, really looking forward to it! (Fimo? Been there, done that. :) )
Hope you had a wonderful day gardening! Procrastination is just a short-handed way of describing the incubation process of brilliant ideas!
(About the lovely colorwork swatch, I'm inclined to say that green leaves on white will show up better...)

Wow - great news about the book. Looking forward to Spring 09 already.

Congratulations! I look forward to seeing your book. That alpaca swatch is lovely, both stitch pattern and color.

I want your book. I know that I will have stashes of yarn just waiting for one of your patterns.

Please give us a heads up as to where to preorder. I must admit, I'm not knitting half as much as I used to, but it's because I've become much more discriminating of where I choose to use my time and stash.

I await your efforts eagerly.

Congratulations on the book! I'm thrilled for you and can't wait to see your designs.

I'll definitely still be in the market for a good knitting book as I confess that my own stash will keep me knitting well into 2009 and beyond...

I was hoping you were working on a book! Congratulations!

If you think there's any possibility that I, for one, will have knitted through my stash when your book is published ... well, then it's clear you've never seen my stash! :)

Congratulations - I for one am very happy that you have a book deal and will still even if only occasionally blog and sell some of your patterns on line. And no - I certainly won't have knit through my stash by 2009 or have traded it all in for fimo!

Congrats on the book! I know its going to be full of great designs!

a book!!! congratulations!!!! we are definitely looking forward to it!

Very good. 2009 is right around the corner... but not so soon you don't have time to create truly excellent designs to fill it up. This variety makes me think it's going to be a truly excellent book.

A book out in Spring of 09?! Congrats! I always knew you could do it. I'll be first on line to buy it, can't wait.

Good luck!

Oh how wonderful - congratulations Anna! My favourite bloggers are becoming authors all over the shop, wonderful. And I can guarantee I will be in line for the book when it eventually hits the big wide world. I can't wait to see the finished equestrian jacket, I love that fitted look you create so beautifully. Thank you for lightening our days with your musings and beautiful designs - we will be loyal to you over the coming months, with the promise of what is to come...

Good luck with the book Anna :)

Congratulations!

of course we will keep reading and purchase the book... silly girl :)
especially because I want to see what that lilac swatch becomes!

Congratulations Anna, you thoroughly deserve this break. Will be sending you many good vibes for the coming 6 months! Best, Kirsty

*Scream* Wow, exciting news on your book deal. Many congrats, so well deserved.

I think green out of white would be much easier to see. Pretty colors. Love the cable booties. I'm working on a pair that I adapted from Ann Budd's Chevron Lace booties in Interweave. I'm using a different yarn (Fixations) and only did 3 panel repeats on the legs, none on the top of the foot, but I am using the short row heel for both the heel and the toe, as she did. They look *really* nice. Congrats on your book deal! Very exciting:)

Ang

Hooray for the book! *I* will be reading it for sure. Yay!

I'm with grumperina on the pre-order. your designs are lovely. (plus I must have my hands on bridie...someday, it shall be mine!) I am still in school and shall surely not tire of knitting in merely two years. Besides, stashes only run out if one never buys any yarn...

PS--about the green and white silk. I think it's really pretty with green as the background. might a tighter gauge help? or a smaller version of the same pattern? and the cabled sweater--that's an exciting proposition...

oops that was me again, hence the PS. apologies for the triple-layer comment.

Good for you! Oh, it will be so hard to wait for this book...

This is fabulous news. Congratulations!

Congrats! All of your swatches look so intriguing!

It's so exciting that knit bloggers are getting book deals. I've been following your blog for a while now and I enjoy your writing style as much as your eye for design. Any book that you publish will do very well here in the U.S. Congratulations!

Great news!! Love your patterns & your sense of style and I just know your book will be every bit as effortless as you. I will definitely buy it! Congratulations.

Huzzah on the book contract! That is so exciting! I'm working through my first pattern of yours (Cherry) and it's brilliant. I can't wait to see what you do with a whole book!

Oh yay! I had hoped I was right about the little hints you were dropping :) I really love your patterns, so simple and elegant, and rest assured I will be knocking down the doors of my bookseller the first chance I hear of your publication. Congratulations!

I've never commented here before, but I love your blog. Congratulations on the book contract, and I will be knitting slowly but surely, and waiting for your appearance, in '09. Meanwhile, posts about your gardening are always welcome.

Congratulations on the news of your book, well done, I been hoping for ages you would be publishing a book! you'll certainly have a buyer here waiting patiently for 2009!

I'm delighted that you're writing a book, and 2009 can't come quickly enough for me. Your blog is great and your patterns are great, so I'm sure the book will be also.

Spring '09? AU CONTRAIRE, by then (maybe) I will have learned to make things other than plain scarves, hats and plain baby jumpers. I shall put myself on the amazon waiting list as soon as you can provide us with the link! How very exciting.

And the equestrian jacket sounds very interesting, I look forward to seeing that.

Congratulations! And by Spring '09... I feel my skills may be ready for your patterns. How exciting!

That is fabulous news, Anna - for you and for all of us who get to see a book authored by you! Wishing you all the best in the creation of your book.

Congratulations - wow!!!