A healthy yarn stash is like a garden. With prudent planting, weeding, and fertilizing, it'll feed our creativity indefinitely. But too often, our stashes can slowly turn from inspiration to overwhelm, rather like a zucchini plant
The Swatcher’s Manifesto
In defense of swatching as a practical, spiritual, and deeply
Anatomy of a Cowl
As a proud resident of a state whose temperatures can
I recently received a squishy package in the mail that so moved me, I had to dust off my swatching needles and review it. While all of my previous yarn reviews have been honest and unbiased,
Slow Stashing and Spring Cleaning
A healthy yarn stash is like a garden. With prudent
Remembering Cat Bordhi
In early 2002, I received a large manila envelope in
I recently received a squishy package in the mail that so moved me, I had to dust off my swatching needles and review it. While all of my previous yarn reviews have been honest and unbiased,
Slow Stashing and Spring Cleaning
A healthy yarn stash is like a garden. With prudent
Remembering Cat Bordhi
In early 2002, I received a large manila envelope in
In early 2002, I received a large manila envelope in the mail from an address in Friday Harbor, Washington. It contained a booklet I’d ordered for my fledgling online knitting magazine, Knitter’s Review. The booklet had
The Woolly West by Andrew Gulliford
While searching for an ancient Ute Indian trail in the
Knitting Comfortably: The Ergonomics of Handknitting by Carson Demers
Imagine being told by your doctor that you can no
Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett, Illustrated by Jon Klassen
Annabelle lives in a cold little town surrounded by snow
A healthy yarn stash is like a garden. With prudent planting,
In defense of swatching as a practical, spiritual, and deeply creative
How do you keep that spark alive? You know, the one that
The day I completed my first sock was a day of
Blocking is one of those intensely personal things, like swatching and
What on earth could a kitchen scale have to do with
We've seen them before, those sad and lonely balls of yarn
This very easy hat pattern from The Knitter's Book of Wool
