FALL COLORS: Yarn Shops in Vilnius Redux
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Most people know Beatrix Potter, or Miss Potter, from the f ilm of that name, for her creation of Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck, Mr. MacGreggor, and all of their friends in her “little books.” Few of her readers may be aware of her involvement with Herdwick sheep and her life as Beatrix Heelis, or […]
I’ve been blogging for a long time. I started in 2003 but I didn’t blog about Lithuania or start working on Lithuanian Knitting: Continuing Traditions until 2007. Here’s another of my early posts. It’s about two knitting books I purchased and what they made me think about when I was looking at these books. I learned so […]
If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you know I’m still alive. If you just follow my blog, I’m sorry for disappearing for so long. I hope to get back to posting regularly starting next week, when I arrive in England! I have SO much I want to write about, but after taking a […]
I’ll be doing a few posts about knitted-on borders for shawls. This is the first part of that series. I’m also working on a little tutorial on how you know if you’ll be joining the border on the RS or WS rows, whether you need a setup row, and if you should have RS or […]
From the runways of designer fashion shows, the shelves of couture and discount clothing stores, and the pages of magazines about art, fashion, and design, Rome fed this second obsession of mine in a way it hasn’t been fed in years. Wherever I looked, I saw knitting being used, sold, and worn.
In Stories In Stitches 4: Knitting and Spirit, guest designer and writer Susan Santos introduced us to mandalas in art, spirituality, and knitting with a fabulous essay and a knitted mandala blanket. I recently had a chat with her to find out more about her interest in mandalas as well as her background and projects […]
How does pi shawl shaping work? The geometry of pi shawls is only possible because of the stretchiness of knitting. That is, the ratio between the diameter and the circumference is constrained by math, but the ability to work large sections without increasing is only allowed because the knitting is malleable. Basic Pi Shawl: For a […]
This KnitAlong is now complete. My Ravelry name is: Druchunas to find find out the next knitalong on ravelry.com. Welcome to 2015! Are you ready to start knitting a pi shawl with me? We’ll begin at the end of January and finish up somewhere between US Pi Day (3/14) and EU Pi Day (22/7). This […]
Stories In Stitches ebooks – 25% off today and Sunday. https://www.ravelry.com/stores/stories-in-stitches/ No coupon needed. Just check out and the discount will be applied. Once upon a time (some stories should begin that way, I am told) there were two friends who loved to research and write about their knitting. These friends, Donna Druchunas and Ava Coleman, […]