Yarn, stories and sometimes stories about yarn
Last year I had the idea to make a little keepsake pillow as a housewarming gift for my friend who bought her first home in Brooklyn (the same friend who gave me the wonderful German knitting pattern book described in my last post). This friend is a fairly well-recognized photographer of street art and graffiti, [...]
Next week I've got a business trip to California, which will involve a good amount of time in airports and airplanes (I live on the east coast, and quite a distance from a major metro airport at that), so I needed a smallish project to take with me that would involve a) minimal/simple pattern repeats, [...]
Of all the techniques I haven't yet tried, steeking is the one I fear the most. Fair Isle, brioche, magic loop - none of these make me sweat as much as the thought of cutting into my knit work. The Tin Can Knits blog has a wonderful "how to" that makes great use of pictures [...]
