Bid on Lot 1—Sweaters and Wraps Bidding for Lot 1 begins at 3pm EDT Monday—June 23, 2014—and ends promptly at 6pm EDT To win, please put your bid in the comments below. Highest bid at 6pm wins. A large mesh bag is included with this Lot—see below. Wrap Style (Style series) Double Knitting: Reversible Two-Color Designs New Directions in Knitting by House of White Birches **OUT OF PRINT!** Knitting Ganseys Only One Way to Win! The Rules: Read...

You may recall last Fall when Nanette the Nanny came to my rescue and did All The Work to ship out all of my pre-orders of Grounded. Well, now she needs a hand, too. To help her out, CraftLit, Vanessa at Survival Organs, and the MamaO Knits Too Much site are helping Nanette raffle off eight Lots of books-and-bags to raise money for a (surprise!!! and) suddenly necessary move. Details on how to bid and win will post here and via the CraftLit...

Not only does the man sing and dance (tap!) he also knits! And look at how he’s holding the yarn! Post by Springwools – Ireland’s Largest Wool...

Sorry for the absence! I’ve been packing boxes. Like this.   I’ve also been doing this: But mostly, today, I wanted to talk to you about this: Amy Gunderson’s book’s cover tells me all I need to know. This book is full of fun patterns. I love fun. I decided to highlight two for you today. The first is Coventry: I admit that I’m a sucker for this color grey, so I’m immediately drawn to it. But beyond...

The most-awesome Dianne of CraftLit/Knitty-2010-trip-fame pinged me with this early this morning and it was so lovely, I just had to share. This is a short film of Renate Hiller talking about the importance of handwork (spinning, knitting, etc.) in the modern world. Renate is the co-director of the Fiber Craft Studio at the Threefold Educational Center in Chestnut Ridge, NY. The film was uploaded in...

Hugely gratifying beyond my capacity for speech is having  Vogue Knitting Winter 2013/14 give praise to my new book, Grounded. The review also says that I’m creating sock patterns for each of the main characters, plus a bonus pattern. This is true and the patterns are all out, now! Yay! It also goes on to say: “The sock patterns… are being rolled out over time and will appear automatically in the Ravelry libraries of knitters who buy the...