Any one-person creative businessperson will tell you that the fun part is making stuff. I love making new things, and I love sharing about them, communicating, teaching, and above all hearing from you all reacting and building and making your own projects. The hardest part is shouting about it for myself! (Like, I knew it would be hard, but it is SO hard!) I made a few tentative inquiries this spring, and a reporter from Knitting Magazine in the UK got back to me. What followed was a lovely conversation with editor Christine Boggis, and that interview is in the current issue.
Christine, like many of you out there, is also a migraine sufferer. That has been the number one surprise in releasing this book, that so many of you have reached out with your own stories of migraine, many of much greater severity than I have ever experienced. I have become convinced that migraine, like miscarriage and menopause, is one of those aspects of health that disproportionately (or entirely) affect women, and that we suffer quietly, with no idea how not-alone we are.
Journalism plays an absolutely massive role in the creative arts, and I’m so thankful to Christine and the team at Knitting Magazine for including my work. They also included the book on their “reviews” page, and I confess I cried a little bit when I saw my book right there next to Kate Davies’ latest.
I hope we can continue to connect and share our migraine stories, inhabit them, and redeem them, and that this article helps that happen. In this year that I turned 40, I am learning from so many of you how to live into aging gracefully. That includes all owning my body’s strengths and ailments, and it includes shouting about my work, and it includes celebrating the network of creatives (knitters, designers, journalists, models, photographers, editors, publicists) that all lift each other up and make this work possible. Carry on in the good, the true, and the beautiful my friends.
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