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 …
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 …
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 …
I have tried to become a sock knitter. More than once. Enough times that it should have taken.It hasn’t. I admire sock knitters the way I admire a woman with a perfect pixie cut. She looks incredible. Effortless, a little sharp, completely herself. You see …
There is a version of me who knits lace. She has good light and infinite patience and she probably drinks her coffee before it gets cold. She has queued approximately forty-seven lace shawls on Ravelry, and she has never actually cast one on. I think …
FO’s Crochet mesh t-shirt; Avelie Bag; Self drafted short sleeve, lace cardigan WIPS: Rivven Tee 2.0 (no pattern out yet)