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 …