Garden Update: Life After the First Flush of Roses
It’s June, and the roses are fading after their first flush here. Rose season starts early in Ventura, and the first flush is usually well …
It’s June, and the roses are fading after their first flush here. Rose season starts early in Ventura, and the first flush is usually well …
I’ve been thinking a lot about test knitters lately. In particular, I’ve been puzzling over what makes for a good test knit experience and what …
I’ve got a test knit opportunity for you! You see, I have three socks coming out this summer in collaboration with Camellia Fiber Company, and …
I love indie-dyed yarn. There’s just one problem: it can be hard to keep track of all the upcoming indie yarn shop updates. That makes …
Test knitting is a fixture in the online knitting community. It’s is a great way for knitters to try out new designs before they’re released …
I love working with pretty stitch markers, which feel like jewelry for my knitting projects. Here’s a roundup of my current favorites.
My first year growing roses, I noticed something strange: as we reached the end of the season, a white rose of mine had turned pink.
You don’t need to spend tons of money on your software to design effective, elegant knitting patterns. Here are three inexpensive alternatives to a pricey Adobe suite.
I was a devoted Ravelry user, but it had some problems all along. The biggest was this: I couldn’t touch anything. I made this printable yarn diary to help keep track of my scraps and ball bands, and I figured I should share it here, too.
But lately, I’ve seen some patterns try to take a shortcut on sizing by just advising knitters to increase or decrease their gauge to make a larger or smaller size. I’m not talking about patterns where there is an entire carefully plotted grid of different stitch and row counts to allow people to knit the same design in several different gauges and do it well. I’m talking about sock patterns that say things like, “to make a larger size, just go up one needle size.”
I think that’s a bad idea. Here’s why.