January 2025 Swatchathon

January is my annual swatching season. I dedicate the entire month, and sometimes some of the previous and following months, to swatching projects I plan to knit and to learning new techniques in hand knitting, machine knitting, crochet, and other fiber media. This year I focused almost exclusively on hand-manipulated fabrics knitted on the LK150 … More January 2025 Swatchathon

Zebra Kurt

There’s a sentence in the Duolingo German course that’s intended to be funny because it’s deprecating to grandmas and knitters: My grandma’s riskiest hobby is knitting. After absorbing the condescension, ageism, and sexism implied in the sentence, I concluded that it was actually true in my case, because some of my projects are wild and … More Zebra Kurt