Category Archives: Classes

“Annetarsia Knits” is printed!

When my first child was born, and I counted his fingers and toes, heard him cry, and gazed into his beautiful eyes, I realized how anxious that I had been during my pregnancy, worrying that he (or she) would be healthy. Yesterday, I saw “Annetarsia Knits” for the first time. It isn’t bound yet, but […]

Easing “Bold Move” intarsia, into Annetarsia

Annetarsia is basically intarsia for lazy knitters.  This means that, in my world, I strive for the absolutely easiest way to knit everything. As I reported in the last blog post, Bold Move requires the MC be knit from the skein.  This complicates the knitting, because the tethered MC tangles with the butterflies of contrast […]

Diving into Stitches South

I haven’t been to Atlanta in decades, or done any significant traveling in the South.  I asked Edie Eckman, Gayle Roehm, and some other teachers about Southern dialect and manners, at lunch.  They told me that if anyone said, “Bless your heart”, I was in big trouble.  Also, the explanation of “y’all”, and “all y’all” […]