As I write this, it’s October. I have a number of family members who I consider knit-worthy, whose birthdays were back in June. Although time is real, it’s also a construct, so unless I personally gave birth to these knit-worthy people, if I don’t have a knitted item for them on the date that coincides … More June Birthdays
I spent most of the January 2025 Swatchathon experimenting with the capabilities of the LK150 knitting machine, now that I have one in both of the places where I knit with machines, at home and at my daughter’s house in Wisconsin. Unlike the machine I learned the basics on, the Brother KH965i electronic machine that … More Cats and Mice and a Red Beetle
Part Two of my “soft protest” knitting took much longer to make than Part One, even though Part Two was a machine knitted garment, and isn’t machine knitting supposed to be quicker than hand knitting? My second garment protesting the new authoritarian takeover of American democracy is less explicit than decorating a sweater with words … More Soft Protest Part Two
The political fiber artist Lisa Anne Auerbach posted a work-in-progress on Ravelry a couple of months ago, with an invitation to other knitters to join her in their own interpretation of her idea. Her idea was based on a link to an article in the New York Times that listed words that the Trump regime … More Soft Protest Part One
My mission for the remainder of my life is to knit through as much of my stash as I can before I die, while also supporting my friend Melissa’s yarn shop with as many new purchases as I can actually knit up. When I finally succeed at knitting up these purchases (or to be honest, … More Grazie, Mariagioia!
I dedicated most of my annual January Swatchathon this year to exploring machine knitting techniques illustrated by the British textile designer Alison Dupernex, especially her use of color in circular tuck stitch shapes. I have owned her book Machine Knitting: Designing with Colour for some years, but it took some years for me to get … More Channeling Alison Dupernex
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 spent the winter and spring of 2021 working on machine-knit entrelac projects, beginning with a yoked, entrelac sweater that grew to dress length, and ending with a series of socks, whose project name on Ravelry was “An Exhaustion of Entrelac Socks“, a collective noun that I coined to express how I felt about entrelac … More Lindsay + Lærke
There was grief throughout Knittingdom when Pom Pom Quarterly shut down as a print periodical last winter. Their patterns were flawed but the designs were beautiful, modeled on diverse people of all sizes, genders, and ethnicities, with great photography printed on the highest quality paper. It was all too expensive to sustain. But they went … More Fortuna’s Pockets
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
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