U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance now regrets famously sneering at “childless cat ladies.” Too late. Besides making an ass of himself, he also made himself the face of an authoritarian hierarchy that fears cats because cats don’t respect authority, and he feminizes a fondness for cats because patriarchal authoritarians fear women. There’s plenty to say … More No Kings Yes Cats: Soft Protest #3
When my daughters’ birthdays came around at the end of November and December, it was an awkward time for me to embark on the elaborate, full-grown sweaters that I usually make them for their birthdays. My abstemious younger daughter said that she didn’t really need a sweater anyway, since I have already made her so … More Calculate, Knit, Recalculate, Frog, Repeat
I have a second knitting machine that lives at my daughter’s house in Wisconsin, a plastic mid-gauge LK150 with different capabilities than my electronic standard gauge KH965i that lives upstairs in my daughters’ childhood bedroom. I was thrilled to discover that the yarn feeder on the regular, standard knitting carriage of the LK150 was equipped … More Y2K Called, It Wants Its Duster Back
While I was working on my master’s degree in Near Eastern Studies during my pre-knitting 20’s, I encountered an Israeli artist who attempted to explain to me the logic of her color use in one of her works. At that stage in my life, my focus was on learning the morphology of Arabic words so … More Maybe It’s Maybelline…
I saw it once on Facebook in a machine-knitting group and then never saw it again, but it burned a hole in my imagination: a yoked all-over entrelac pullover in gradients of green and pink. It sparked my year of machine-knit entrelac, which occupied my knitting machine for a lot of 2020. I mentioned this … More Chiaroscuro
This project was born from three factors: First, our potholders were full of burn holes and should have been replaced years ago. Second, I found a free pattern on Ravelry for a pretty flower-shaped potholder made of two crocheted circles joined together by a contrast color that delineates the last four rows of the pattern … More Make It Work!
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