Awhile ago, I finished the knitting portion of Gilipeysa (designed by Hélène Magnússon), an Icelandic yoked cardigan for Joey. I think I’ve previously mentioned that it’s all Anzula Cloud, which is one of my favorite yarns. We then went on […]
A few years ago, I took a shot at doing some Youtube videos where I talked about knitting. They weren’t super popular, what a shock. BUT I did get the occasional email from Youtube letting me know that someone out […]
I love all of the knitted holiday ornaments that I see in stores and on Ravelry. Unfortunately for me, I don’t have the patient to knit a million little sweaters or mittens or penguins. But I can make these: These […]
Awhile ago, I was talking about knitting techniques I love or would like to learn. Today’s is cable stitch patterns. So, this is the most cabled project I’ve done: It’s a pattern for a cowl, but I made it extra long […]
I really love Ravelry’s RSS options for monitoring friend activity, so I thought I’d show you how I keep tabs on everyone! My queue grows more by the day, but it’s definitely a way I locate the patterns I love […]
Fasten up, friends! Today we’re looking at buttonholes. I totally wanted to do some little swatchy examples of buttonholes for you, but I have totally screwed up my wrist and it’s hard to knit! So instead we’re getting chatty. I’ve […]
This morning has been rainy and a bit dull, and on top of everything, I’ve somehow hurt my wrist! Since my knitting has slowed down, I figured I’d do a little instructional video on my process for photographing knitwear: I […]
I’m still working on my list of techniques from the last post. Don’t worry, I plan to mix these up with other content, but felt like this would be a fun topic for today! Bobbles… Have you made them? Do you […]
One of my lovely readers asked me to write a blog post about knitting techniques I’d like to learn. I found a huge list of techniques via Google, so to begin with, I pared the list down to remove things […]
What happened to my week? I can’t believe it’s already Sunday… I happened upon this Lifehacker post that shows a method for knitting without needles: I find it interesting… My biggest needles are a whopping size US 50, which I’ve […]