I’ve been designing a design that makes my other designs look like scrap paper. I’m not proud. I’m just honest. It’s complicated stranded colorwork, includes steeks and plackets and all sorts of hardware and things and it might kill both me and my test knitter, but gosh darn it, it’s for a friend and it’s important. So. While that’s killing me softly, I decided to eat. Scones. The weather has turned;...

My goodness, but I’d forgotten how immense Rhinebeck is! I think I’m glad that I was working the Cooperative Press booth most of the time. Phew! Well, let’s see, I have to think back, now. Friday, October 14th, I started early by missing my tram so the Husband had to drive me to the train station. I wasn’t really all that upset about it, and I got on a train just fine with my big bag and everything—even with the...

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,...

Settling in over here on the Mid-Atlantic Seaboard (or thereabouts) hasn’t been as much of a shock as you might think. And why has it been so easy? Because of knitters. Knitters, fiberfolk, friends of yore, and book-stuff. I’ve already visited (and fallen in love with) two of my local yarn stores (Uniquities nearby in Vienna, and Fiber Space via Metro in Old Town Alexandria), I’ve seen good friends who I left behind in NYC...