This Time Last Year
This time last year, I had a lot of fear. I had an obsession with COVID numbers, and an unhealthy habit of checking them every night before bed. I had a lot of new plants in my…
Steven’s Creek
Inspiration comes from many different places. Sometimes I think of an entire finished piece and I know how I want it to look; sometimes I start with a yarn and think about what I want it to…
How the Knitting Landscape is Changing in Response to COVID-19
Money is tight, and knitting can be considered a luxury item, but lots of us rely on knitting either for our livelihood or for the maintenance of our sense of well-being. This makes me even more grateful…
10 Yarn Commandments
1. Thou shalt makest the projects thou enjoyest making, and use the yarn thou enjoyest using and can afford, yea verily even though it be not the yarn or projects all the "cool knitters" prefer. 2. Thou…
Virtual Fiber Festivals
Since the cancelation and reorganizing of so many events this year, I've found it hard to find listings of those events that are still happening online (and the new ones that have been added). The good news…
Nearly Knitting
I’ve been spending all my time lately on knitting-related things, but not really doing any knitting — or at least, not knitting that feels like knitting. I’m teaching eight classes at the debut Fiberworld event this week…
Tips & Tricks for Devious Knitters: How to Knit an I-Cord Edge as You Go, And Why You Might Want To
Have I mentioned that one of the things I don’t really care for in knitting is weaving in ends? I’m as much of a sucker as anyone else for using ALL. THE. COLORS. And while self-striping yarns…
10 Things I Learned From Knitting
1. Patience – Knitting anything takes a long time. In a world where I am used to instantaneous communication with friends on the other side of the world and same-day delivery of almost anything, it’s a good…
Tips & Tricks for Devious Knitters: Narrowing Socks-in-Progress
As you may be aware, I don’t particularly care for re-doing things in my knitting. So when a project is turning out to be, well, not quite what I had hoped, I will consider whether something can…
“What Makes You Devious?”
My teenaged son asked me that this afternoon as he was supervising my attempts to get reacquainted with WordPress. Frankly, it’s shorthand for lazy. I’m a pretty lazy knitter. There are things I don’t like to do,…
