Rebecca Danger

Wasabi Cuteness Overload

Holy smokes, I got an adorable picture in my email inbox today:

 

Look at the Wasabi-Mobile! Thanks Tracy for sharing your creation! Tracy made this for her daughter's bedroom, which is pug-themed. That's right, a pug-themed bedroom, definitely the coolest bedroom in the whole world! Tracy said all three Wasabi's are different sizes, and I think it is just adorable.

That's about all that's exciting around here. I spent the day on my bum knitting (and un-knitting) for my book and watching episodes of Friends that I Netflixed. Life is a constant party around the Danger house.

Oh, and just a special note to say Happy Birthday Ray! I know you're reading this!

Meet Esther!

Well, despite still being sicker than I thought and one heck of a slow moving morning this morning, I just got pattern #15 up in the Etsy shop! Wohoo! Meet Esther the Eccentric Elephant:

 

 

She's all there: from here Elephant ears, to her Elephant trunk, to her Elephant tail:

Man I love Elephants! Does every one else love Elephants as much as me? (Oddly enough I am listening to the Black Eyed Peas Elephunk album, specifically the Smells Like Funk song right now......) Again, I knew I needed to do an Elephant since I started writing patterns this year and I have actually been working on her since July I realized this morning. I had a hard time getting those ears just right, which made me very frustrated since I was working on her on the hottest day of the year in b-town. 

So, Esther is in the etsy shop, and I am off to Flickr and Ravelry her up! Enjoy! 

The One In Which Rebecca Is Feeling Much Better

Hello all! Wowza, I have been sick as a dog for the last almost 2 weeks. Mr Danger came home with some awful chest/head flu bug from work 2 weeks ago, and despite me yelling, "Get away from me!" "Cover your mouth when you cough!" "These are Clorox bleach wipes, use them on everything you touch!" I found myself getting sick 2 days later. Then, the first full day of being sick I slept for 8 straight hours and woke up to a fever over 104. Yikes! So, it has been a little rocky around here, especially since I was sick enough I couldn't even lift my arms to knit for the first 6 days.

But, I'm back! And I have been knitting like a complete maniac since thursday. I finished 2 book patterns (huzzah: 3 patterns down, 17 to go in 2 months!) plus this month's Etsy pattern, plus the 1st knit through of next month's Etsy pattern. Wooo! And, the yarn has been slowly arriving for the book, which is very lovely and means I have a dining room table COVERED in gorgeous fibers. It is quite exciting around here, I must say.

So, a new pattern comes out this Thursday, yeah! And I am feeling much better and I will be blogging again! I guess that is about all I have to report around here.

Danger Crafts: The Ravelry Group!

Oh boy, Stacey (BabblingStacey on Ravelry) started a Danger Crafts group on Ravelry today: http://www.ravelry.com/groups/danger-crafts

Thanks so much Stacey for getting that going! I don't know why I didn't think of that, but hey, some people are more on it than I am....

Today I worked on picking out all of the yarns for the projects in my book. It was super fun at first, but then I realized I had been working on it for several hours and I got really tired and was not so excited about trying to fit colors together after that. Picking yarn for the last 4 patterns probably took me as long as the first 16! But it is done now, phew! The whole book is due January 10th and I have one of the 20 patterns done.....yikes! That made for a bit of a freak out fest this weekend. So, I am now off to sit on my butt and knit until my fingers bleed.

Oh and all you Ravelers, go sign up for the group now!

Danger Crafts: The Book

That's right, you read that title correctly! The super-secret thing I have been working on is that I have been in negotiations for a contract to write a book of knitting patterns! How exciting is that?

It is so nice to finally be able to tell you since I was approached by a publisher the end of May (about 2 days before I was approached by Deep South Fibers, my distributor. Boy was THAT one cool week!). Since they happen to be in Washington State I have since gone down and met with them, and they did all of their number crunching, and then sent me a contract. Since I have never done this before and was feeling very lost a friend of mine (who I wrote a pattern for her upcoming book) gave me the name of a good agent who I hired and she worked with the publisher to get a better contract, which I signed RIGHT as we moved. So there you go, I have literally been working on this and talking about this since May and haven't been able to say anything to you guys because nothing was finalized yet. Phew! But that's the secret: I am going to be a published author! Squeeeeee!

The basic details are it is going to be a book of 20 monster knitting patterns (all new!) and it should release in January 2011 if everything stays on schedule. Part of what made this move such a big deal was that the first pattern+the table of contents was due 10/1. Since I ended up signing the contract like 9/25 and I was moving unexpectedly at the same time the publisher was nice enough to push my deadline to this coming Monday instead. But, since my samples aren't all finished yet and I need to get them in the mail tomorrow, I better go!

The Dangers Have Hit Birch Bay

Hello every one! I am so sorry for the incredibly long silence but I am back! We are moved into the lovely new cottage in Birch Bay and are more or less settled in after being here just over a week. I have several final little things to get organized and settled, but overall we are feeling very comfortable and happy in our new digs. Mr Danger and I love it, but the pugs absolutely ADORE it here. I don't know what it is but I don't think I have ever seen Abbey and Lucy as comfy and happy as they are in this house. 

Birch Bay is AMAZING too. Team Danger here gets up every morning and we do a 2-4 mile walk all along the waterfront. You know how most people get really excited when they see Blue Herons because you just don't see them that often? Not here! Here we see 10+ every morning when we walk. There was one the other day perched IN someone's little boat. It was too funny.

I don't know what it was exactly, but this was the hardest move I have ever done. We move a LOT too, in the last 4 years between retail stores and us personally we have moved 8 times. Yes, 8. But this one, man this one nearly put me in a home. I think it was partly because we went from not planning to move with absolutely no where to go and no looking done on September 10th, to packed, cleaned, organized, letting go of a good 50% of our possessions and moving into a new city on the 28th. We also went from about 1,500 sq ft WITH a garage, to about 850 sq ft, partially furnished, withOUT a garage. We still had so much stuff left from my handbag business, it literally filled half of a 2 car garage. But I didn't even touch any of the stuff in the garage for the year we lived there, so I don't even know why we were hanging on to any of it.

But we are here now, and I have something really exciting going on. You know that super secret thing that I have been working on? Well, everything has been finalized and I will tell you all about it tomorrow! I'm so excited to tell you since it has been all we have been talking about here OFF the internet for the last several months.