Tips and Tricks for Devious Knitters: Testing Yarn for Color-Fastness
Here are two questions with one great answer: 1.) What do you do with your yarn ties after removing them from the hank, other than throwing them away? 2.) Is there an easy way to check for…
What’s Next: A Christmas Stocking Class (That’s Really a Sock-Knitting Class in Disguise)
After a fantastic (and very full!) weekend of teaching and socializing at Rhinebeck, I’m looking forward to what’s next. And that, if you are wondering, is a series of classes that I’m teaching outside of any festival…
10 Things I Love About Virtual Festivals (and 10 Things I Miss About In-Person Festivals)
I can attend in my pajamas. Everyone can see my hands easily when I teach. No one can see the mess on my floor. I can afford to attend more festivals when there are no travel costs.…
Where to Find Me at Rhinebeck
You won’t have to wander the aisles or search the food lines to find me at Rhinebeck this year … just follow the links! Free and open to all Rhinebeck attendees: Friday, Oct 16 6:15 PM Eastern…
2020, What Have You Done To Me?
I’ll be attending my first Rhinebeck next week, and though it will be virtual, I’ll be attending as a teacher. I didn’t see that one coming. This time last year I was between weekends away, looking forward…
On the Road Again (Not Really)
I suppose it is one of the delicious absurdities of life during a pandemic that although I have been physically going nowhere, my weekends have been jam-packed with fiber-related activity, as more and more events are moving…
Knitters and Their Bags
I’m sure non-knitters have bags: tote bags, purses (growing up in Philadelphia we called them “pocketbooks”), reusable grocery bags… I’m sure some non-knitters are even passionate about their bags. But do you think it’s possible for non-knitters…
Yarn is Not Potatoes
So, you know how I always question things? And wonder if there’s not an easier way to do things? Sometimes those experiments go wrong. This was one of those times. I had some skeins to wind for…
Tips & Tricks for Devious Knitters: Dealing With Dark Yarn
Have you ever knit with black (or very dark) yarn? I have, numerous times. I can't seem to help it. I knit this beautiful Almond Street Shawl a couple of years ago, and
