I took a bit of a break from knitting during my pregnancy, but once Alice was born I started again with a vengeance!  Babies are so fun to knit for- projects are fast and adorable and the fit requirements are not terribly stringent.  My last knitted object of the year was technically finished at 4 am on January 1st, but since I hadn't gone to bed ( Read more... )

( Lace shrug )

I need advice on a business matter, regarding my side work in knitting pattern design. I'm running into some confusing questions regarding topics such as offering others the rights to use my patterns in published fiction books or to teach the patterns as part of a for-pay course. I have no real idea how to value my work or what I could/should do ( Read more... )

Why, oh why, oh why, oh WHY did I decide to knit a skirt with fingering-weight yarn in slip-stitch weave?

Or to put it in pictoral form:

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DensityThis is the feature of yarn most likely to trip up newish knitters. While every pattern tells you the thickness of the yarn you should buy, none of them particularly address density. When handling individual balls of yarn, density isn't obviously an issue-- most yarns are sold in balls of 50 grams, and when they're all wound up it's not ( Read more... )

Choosing yarn is hard. I don't know about you, but I generally go into "choice paralysis" the minute I hit a yarn store, a craft store, or the internet. The days when you could choose a yarn by "weight" because everything was either wool or acrylic are long, long over-- there's so many different yarns, with so many different properties! So how ( Read more... )

Ooh, punny ( Read more... )

Today is wet and drippy and gray and cool, and the cats are being adorable and friendly (even the shy one!). It's a good day. I like rainy days ( Read more... )

I am normally totally okay with the fact that there are things I can't do. For example, I cannot: do a pull-up, speak or read German, solve for a derivative (without a reference book), talk to my brother like a normal person, etc, etc ( Read more... )

I've recently finished knitting a cardigan, which is extremely pretty. Cardigans have, historically, been a problem for topographical reasons. They often gap open in a terribly unflattering way, which is vexing and lowering to the spirit. In designing my own personal cardigan, I resolved that none of that nonsense would be allowed to go down ( Read more... )