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 …
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 …
Capsule wardrobes were designed for people who want limits. Fewer decisions, fewer pieces. A fixed number, arrived at deliberately, after which you stop acquiring and start living. But knitters are not normal consumers. We are makers. And if you tell a knitter that once they …
There’s something lovely about watching a knit or crochet stitch appear on a catwalk. Not as nostalgia. Not as irony. Just as something beautiful because of what it is. Texture as architecture. Stitch as silhouette. Compared to last season, I had to look a little …
Self drafting is a learnable skill and it is a rewarding and freeing process. It is learning to build garments for your own body.
October is the perfect time to start thinking about your holiday knitting. The season can bring joy, but it can also bring stress—especially if you wait until December to start multiple projects or force yourself to knit with yarn or patterns you don’t love. It’s …