We are back in our condo! This should be a joyous occasion, but the cost (in financial as well as emotional/personal terms) of getting here has been overwhelming, and will continue to be so. More on that below for those who are interested.
Workshops on the horizon
As you may have noticed, I’m not actively applying to teach workshops right now, due to overwork in other facets of my life, but I am always grateful to be on people’s radar and sometimes that means people seek me out to teach at their events. I’ve got a few of these coming up in the second half of this year, and wanted to remind you of them in case you’d like to join. Without further ado:
- (Yarnover 2025, Plymouth, MN) Sat, Oct 4, 9am-12pm: Two-pattern Double-knitting
- (Yarnover 2025, Plymouth, MN) Sat, Oct 4, 2-5pm: Multi-color Double-knitting
- (Green Mountain Knitting Guild, White River Jct, VT) Nov 8-9: Workshops TBA (stay tuned)
- (Virtual Knitting Live) Nov 14, 10am-12pm: Introduction to Double-knitting (link pending)
The Yarnover workshops are in jeopardy — if they don’t meet their minimum enrollment by the end of this month, they’ll be cancelled. So please tell your friends in the area to come check them out.
Want me to come teach at your local event? Get in touch!
What else is up?
I know there are those who are waiting with bated breath to know when I will be returning to knitting in a more active way. If you’re one of those people, thank you for remembering me even when the social media algorithms have forgotten me and it feels like much of the knitting world has moved on. My intention was to put my knitting life on hold for a year while I closed out another chapter of my life, but things don’t always go to plan. While we are back in our rebuilt condo, I am still working as a Maintenance Manager for the Meeting House, our erstwhile home and workplace. The reason for this is long and complicated, but the effect of it is that I have no way of moving on beyond that position. I simply don’t have the time yet to dedicate to my knitting work again.
The plan right now is that my replacement will be in place by September. And while I’d love to have had time to plan for a grand announcement, I think it is going to take me some time beyond that to decide what to do next and actually enact it. So, charitably, expect to hear what Fallingblox Designs will be doing next in early 2026. Thank you for your patience until then. I really miss the knitting life and hope I can muster the energy to return to it properly soon.
So what’s going on with the condo?
Thanks for asking. This seems to be the first thing many people ask, and we hear the mounting frustration every time. Rest assured that nobody is more frustrated about how long this has taken than we are; we appreciate that this saga has overshadowed our lives for the past 5 years and would have broken lesser couples. But we’re strong, resourceful, and unwilling to let life have its way with us, and we are now in the home stretch. We will be closing on or before the 25th (so, about 2 weeks from now). When that’s done, we’re going to need to regroup and figure out how much belt-tightening will be necessary to maintain our bare necessities. We’ve been crunching numbers and doing our best to foresee our coming financial situation, but I’m sure we’re missing something and we’re going to be operating with a much less robust cushion than we have had in the past.
When this is all over, I promise I’ll tell the whole story. I just didn’t want to jinx it by talking about it in great detail before everything is resolved. Suffice it to say, we’ve done the best we could but many things were out of our control. We’ve been lucky, we’ve been strategic, and we’ve still managed to lose due to stuff we couldn’t control or had no way of knowing about. But in the end, we’ve got a roof over our heads, and a very nice one, and that’s immediately what’s most important.
That said, if you want to toss us a little something, every little bit helps; you can use my tip jar at Ko-Fi.