Would you rather listen than read? The audio version is available on my free Substack. There is something wonderfully strange about the phenomenon that is the knitting podcast. A person sits down in front of a camera, often in a spare bedroom or a corner …
Prefer to listen? Head over to my Substack for the audio version of this essay It comes with being a knitter, a particular phrase that is never more than a breath away from being said out loud, or, at the very least, quietly forming in …
From top to bottom: My finished long sleeve linen/silk T-shirt; My finished merino/Silk cardigan; my in progress lace basket weave cardigan; My in progress gamboge shrug; and finally, my yarn for the planned funnel neck pullover. if you’d like to see my yarns and handmade …
My finished garter stitch sweater My WIPS: Yarns that never made it into the shop😊 My frogged collared tee: My Pinterest board with some runway looks. Thanks so much for visiting with me today! Please visit my Substack to hear more audio conversations about knitting. …
For a time, shawls were the dominant presence in knitting culture. Entire design careers were built around them. Many major pattern releases seemed to be a crescent, a half-pi, an asymmetrical triangle, or some elaborate construction that required both a lace chart and a leap …
There was a time when, for me, falling asleep meant planning knitting projects. Not in a formal sense. I was not sitting upright in bed with a notebook and a schematic. But somewhere between turning off the lamp and actually falling asleep, my brain would …
It was, by Florida standards, cold. And because I am now a woman with both experience and consequences, I approached my closet strategically. I chose a handknit sweater, but not an aggressive one. A merino wool, DK weight, with a reasonable gauge. Nothing too …
On visibility, aging and the stranger social power of handknits I knit a charcoal grey sweater last winter. Relaxed shape, dropped shoulders, wooly tweed yarn. The kind of sweater that feels elegant in its simplicity. I wore it to run errands and a woman at …
I have a new bag. I made it myself, a chocolate brown, raffia bag with bamboo handles that I am absolutely desperate to carry, and every morning when I get dressed, I hold it up against my outfit just to see. Just to feel what …
On the shawls I make, the shawls I keep, and the woman I keep imagining I’ll become There is a large blue IKEA bag at the bottom of my closet. You know the one, the kind you use to haul your college kid’s belongings into …