Oh oh oh oh! I have news! New KAL for you—Chrissy Gardiner (of sock fame and lore) is going to host our first What Would Madame Defarge Knit? Knit-a-Long! We’ll be starting with her gorgeous Wilhelmina Shawlette—a pattern that shouldn’t intimidate anyone, it’s a shawlETTE after all. And if you’re not a lace knitter (ahem, yet) fear not. This is an EXCELLENT pattern to start with. There have already been...

For reasons that will continue to elude me, videos wont embed at the Madame Defarge site, so… I’ll put them here. Without further ado, Sections one, two, and three of What Would Madame Defarge...

I made a BSJ (that’s Baby Surprise Jacket if you haven’t made one yet) for my little niece. It was definitely a surprise, mostly because of how odd it looked. Here, let me show you. See? Giant blob o yarn. Well, once I finished I decided to take pictures of the folding process. First, the primordial blob. Now, at the top you’ll see button holes. That’s one side of the front. You can see a sleeve trying to form there,...

In honor of Charles Dickens birthday, we wrote a book! Perhaps—as his expression makes clear—he was hoping for a different type of book? Regardless, What Would Madame Defarge Knit? goes into pre-orders today and will soon be in your hands, on your Kindle, your Nook, your iPad, your iPhone… you get the idea. Twenty+ patterns from eleven designers—knit and crochet (because so many of us are multi-crafty)—await your...

Along with the “How to Crochet” page I put up a bit ago—with the best video tutorials I found—I wanted to add Continental and British knitting tutorial videos to the mix. Before I go any further, and because I know folks have opinions about these things, I want to put out there that I knit both British and Continental. My Grandmother taught me British when I was little, and later when I picked the craft back up as an...

My cousin-in-law turned me on to this sock, which, if you haven’t seen yet, will absolutely rock your world. Beowulf sock pattern – Boing Boing. Hwaet,...