Very Happy Holidays from our knitting family to yours! …
Archives for December 2017
The Beauty of the Bread Clip
Caveat: this post may be most relevant for a North American audience. I’ve heard that the traditional bread clip has fallen out of use in Europe because it is not easily recyclable. My favorite cast-on method is the long tail cast-on. It’s stretchy and sturdy and, well, it’s what I’ve always …
Vesterland
At the same time that Knit Picks put out a call for submissions for their Encircled collection of yoke sweaters, they also put out a second call for smaller stranded knitting designs. What possessed me to send in designs for both, is beyond me, but I knew I could crank out a hat design fairly …
Snowfall in New England
I bet, from the title of this post, you are expecting some pithy, romantic descriptions of us New Englanders, gathered round the wood-fired stove sipping mulled cider and knitting as the snow falls silently upon our maples and pines, or of us out snowshoeing and hiking the hills in the cheek-pinking …