Tips and tricks

When I first started knitting, like most knitters, I learned to knit on a set of two straight needles. That was my comfort zone for …

If you tend to knit on the go like I do, you’ve probably encountered this scenario before: you are out and about, and you reach …

Summertime is well and truly upon us here in the northern hemisphere, and that means a lot of us will be going on vacation. If …

Most of the time, when we knit socks, we tend to knit them from a ball or cake of yarn. But what about when you …

I love working with hand dyed yarns. The colors are unlike anything I can find elsewhere, and I love being able to support smaller dyers.  …

I often see confusion about whether knitters need sock blockers to finish their projects. The answer, as with so many things, is really that it …

When I first started knitting, I spent a lot of time puzzled by the somewhat archaic instructions used in many knitting patterns. I was mostly …

I recently realized that I needed another ear warmer in my life. We’ve had unusually cold weather here in Ventura, but I also like to …

When I first started making and wearing shawls, I played around a lot with how to get them to stay put. I tried draping them …

Earlier this fall, Woolly Wormhead reached out via a mutual friend to see if I had any interest in trying Woolly’s new book, Cuboidal. It …