Knitting New England

Knitters who swear by Deborah Newton's classic    Designing Knitwear , a reference so useful it's been in print since 1992 , can no...

My yarn swift doing its thing. One of the greater pleasures of knitting is its unchanging technology. Needles, yarn, an umbrella swift (a...

New England's at the verge of autumn, the season I love most for so many reasons, not the least of which is the pleasure of knitting wo...

Dr. Monchik  eyeballed my x-rays today and, pointing to the break said,  "You see how cloudy it is there?  That's good.  It means ...

Since I don't have a light box handy, I placed the x-rays in the stairwell window. Study them carefully and you will discern images of...

Here's how my yarn came out. The first skein I dyed, all Slate-colored, is in the center. The second skein, mostly Mahogany, is on the...