In Search of Lost Time

I’ve been feeling pretty chaotic inside lately- both overwhelmed and un-tethered–trying to find strucutre and a rhythm, but just sort of floating, ever more anxiously, into the vacuum of dark outer space. Basically, it’s my usual Jan-March challenge when Intiman goes off season and 35 hours of my week float away into the ether. I spend three months trying to find my sea-legs of having more time, only to hit my stride at the time I have to go back to work. Four years, and I haven’t gotten better at this dance.
But I made a little movement forward this week in realizing that perhaps this sense of lost/untetherered/un-strcutured time could be alleviated slightly if I stopped letting December 2009 stare at me from my wall. I needed a new calendar: literally and figuratively. This has never proved so challenging. My search started to resemble to quest for the grail, when I found my dream calendar only to discover it’s been sold out for a month. So here’s the round-up of runners up, good enoughs, the Grail and the chosen.

The Unattainable Holy Grail of Calendars

I still plan on finding this one.
The “Sold Out”

I love this illustrated and essentially narrative calendar. At the end of my search I managed to find what looks to be some available copies, but ultimately, I wouldn’t be able to see the details well enough where I hang my calendar. Poor reasoning, but I just felt it wasn’t a perfect fit.
The Runners-Up


black, white, script


Umami
The “Almost Bought Them Even Though They Weren’t Monthly” Calendars

Sticks, barns, lines

Soda, turquoise, orange
The Chosen


Technically this calendar is smaller than my qualifications for calendar purchase but it wins out for color, concept, aesthetic and the project patterns it features. I’m a devoted Purl Soho customer back from my NY days, so I’m glad to support their creativity and smart handcrafted style (rare to find Yale MFA folk behind yarn and quilt company design). So I bought this and added two Cascade 220 skeins to my order for good measure. Still hoping to stumble over a full-size calendar to love as well. Thanks for all those who made great suggestions.

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Posted on Wed, Feb 3rd, 2010 at 5:46 pm
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Comments: 8

  1. 1 | Kj

    February 3rd, 2010 at 7:37 pm

    Hmmm-I may break down and buy the penmenship one as well even though its expensive. It’s so gorgeous

  2. 2 | Kj

    February 3rd, 2010 at 7:40 pm

    yup- just did.

  3. 3 | Peter

    February 3rd, 2010 at 9:10 pm

    And what are your plans for the Cascade 220?

  4. 4 | Kj

    February 3rd, 2010 at 9:11 pm

    scarves scarves and more scarves :)

  5. 5 | Ganch

    February 4th, 2010 at 8:57 am

    KJ! I’ve been having the exact same dilemma, also unable to find the Nikki McClure calendar! And I also just bought the penmanship calendar. So it turns out that while we have radically different taste in movies, we are calendar taste twinsies!

    Your blog keeps getting better and better. Thanks for it!!!

  6. 6 | Kj

    February 4th, 2010 at 3:53 pm

    rad- glad we’ll be seeing the year through the same caliigraphy

  7. 7 | kim

    February 4th, 2010 at 5:52 pm

    We are also calendar twins!! Only the craft kind!

  8. 8 | Kj

    February 5th, 2010 at 5:15 am

    and in the tradition of great ironies, got an email 24 hours after purchasing 2, count them TWO calendars, from buyolympia.com announcing that Nikki McClure calendars were FINALLY available again. Sorry Holy Grail, you played too hard to get.

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