I’m in the process of revamping my knitting design business for about the third or fourth time. Unless you get a full-time job at a big yarn company or publisher, making a living with knitting is not a simple job. It’s a complex freelance career that requires wearing a lot of different hats (which is a good thing, […]
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A guest post by Katherine Durack. If you’ve read Sue Monk Kidd’s wonderful historical novel, The Invention of Wings, you might have wondered about some of the details — which parts of the story did Kidd make up? And which are based in fact? “Slaveholding As It Was: The Courageous Testimony of Sarah and Angelina Grimke” tells about […]
A guest post by Susan Santos. Knitting patterns and recipes have a lot in common. They both generally have a list of required ingredients–yarn, needles; butter, flour, etc. This is usually followed by steps of execution–CO 100 sts, knit two rows; preheat the oven to 350 degrees, grease a 9″ cake pan, and so forth. Maybe […]
Some random thoughts on life and work. I have a fantastic job and a pretty awesome life. I love making things and sharing them, and that’s what I do to make a living. Actually, I have been lucky to have lived a charmed life. Although I’m not rich and at times I’ve been poor, I’ve […]
You may have noticed that there are no knitting books in my “top ten” list. That’s because knitting books need a list of their own. I bought my first knitting book in 1999, when I decided I wanted to knit sweaters for myself. I made a rule: I would have to knit at least three […]
I’ve been staying home more than usual this year, but I have my spring teaching trip coming up soon. I find that getting away for a little while in the spring is a good transition out of winter for me. Sometimes I travel to teach at national events like Interweave’s Yarn Fest or Stitches, sometimes I teach at […]
Vermont has wool!!
You guys, it’s Rounded Pi Day! To celebrate, I am making my 3.14159 Shawls ebook half price. Just $9 for a whole book of pi shawl knitting! That’s just $9 for a whole book of pi shawl knitting patterns. What is a Pi Shawl? The pi-shawl general design was unvented by Elizabeth Zimmermann and it makes creating […]
I don’t think I blogged in February. I don’t think I did much of anything in February, to be honest. February sucks. It’s the worst month of the year. It seems like the longest, even though it’s the shortest. And this year, here in Vermont, it was worse than ever because there wasn’t much snow. […]
Wabi-sabi is the quintessential Japanese aesthetic. It is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It’s the imperfections, the mistakes, the idiosyncrasies, and the blemishes that make life interesting. These are the things that make knitting interesting, too. I am not a perfect knitter. In many ways, […]