I'll give them this...they're fast. It could be that I just needed to see that thumb done so I could gaze upon it in wonder and delight. Or it could be that the thick yarn and stretchy stitch pattern mean I only need 32 stitches in a round.  Either way, [...]

Thanks so much to everyone who bid on or shared the fundraisers over on instagram.  Thanks to your help and generosity, we raised $1,617.19 (that's bids, less paypal and postage fees)! I've rounded it up to make it easy to divide in half, and sent half off to the Equal [...]

That thing? That thing where you're kind of tired or overwhelmed or maybe just a little blue? And you want to knit because knitting makes you feel better?  But you also know that you really need some rather mellow knitting because this is Just Not The Time for anything challenging?  [...]

Last week I sold six of the pieces from the Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet books for Black Lives Matter and the Equal Justice Initiative. Today, to finish the sale off, I'm listing a set of the books themselves. The paper versions have been out of print for years. I get emails [...]

For anyone following along at home, you'll notice I swapped the colors between the hat and the mitt. The hat had wide pink stripes, the mitt has wide green stripes (or yellow...there seem to be some strong feelings about whether that's yellow or green or something between). I did it [...]

The only reasonable response to finishing a hat is to cast on some mitts.  At least that seems to be the theory I work under (and somehow the hat always comes first, never the other way around). So of course upon completion of the stripey bit of magic, I did [...]

The hat grew while you weren't looking. Or rather, it grew while I was knitting on it and talking about other things. It continues to be lovely on either side, and the most difficult thing about it continues to be deciding which side to have face out. This is clearly [...]

I'm selling pieces from the Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet books to raise money for Black Lives Matter and the Equal Justice Initiative. Today I'm listing the Polypodium vulgare cowl from The Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet, Volume I and the Metopsilus porcellus cowl from The Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet, Volume III. These both absolutely [...]

I'm selling pieces from the Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet books to raise money for Black Lives Matter and the Equal Justice Initiative. Today I'm listing the Erasmia pulchella hat from The Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet, Volume II and the Conferva villosa hat from The Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet, Volume III. These are both [...]

I'm selling pieces from the Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet books to raise money for Black Lives Matter and the Equal Justice Initiative. Today I'm listing the Lycaena virgaureae Shawl from The Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet, Volume II. Now I'll tell you a secret. I always sort of thought that, when the books were [...]