A Tale of Two-Timing
Dear Ann, It’s kind of ridiculous, even for me. I’m toggling between two projects that are on my needles right now—that’s not ridiculous, that’s Standard Operating Procedure around here—and they’re...
Letters
A correspondence that started in 2003. Enter if you dare.
How to Knit a Cloud
Dear Kay, A quick hello because I’m on the road right now. My hot tip for the sort of thing that suits a knitter who’s packing light? This. This is...
Stepping Out
Dear Ann, O joy! It’s cherry blossom time here. To celebrate the season, I’ve been doing a bit of springtime organizing, which I call Swedish death cleaning because that is...
It’s a Knit-a-thon: For Food
Hello everybody, We wanted to tell you today about an amazing fundraiser in the knitting community. Started by designer and teacher Laura Nelkin, and now in its third year, Knit...
It’s a Gift
Dear Ann, Quinn Piper’s beautiful post last year on her collaborative approach to knitting gifts has stayed with me, rambling around inside my head as I knitted and stitched and...
Atlas Insider: Happy New Year!
It’s a brand-new year, knitters. While we look ahead to a great year of Knitting All the Things, we’re also looking back at the year just ended. Life comes at...
Postcard from a Wedding
Dear Kay, Just back from a wedding in North Carolina. So fun. I keep replaying moments from the weekend. The happy couple were so easy with each other, such a...
Knitter on the Verge
Dear Ann, Ah, December. We’re coming up on the winter solstice, where many magnificent crafty ambitions come crashing together in the perpetual dusk of the year’s shortest days. I’m racing...
Atlas Insider: It Never Gets Old
In mid November, I was in Nashville for our glorious Arne & Carlos weekend at MDK World Headquarters. I had dragged my now-very-large Temperature Blanket-in-progress on the plane with me,...
Journal Your Way to Joy
It’s ironic that I am MDK’s foremost advocate of the art and science of bullet journaling. My own bullet journal (or “bujo” as we say in Bujo Fam) is a...
2 Superspecial Deals! (Free U.S. Shipping Is One)
Today marks the start of many folks’ holiday shopping. We don’t call this Black Friday. We call this Superspecial Deal Time. We have two Superspecial Deals, in fact. Superspecial Deal...
Knitting and Other Reasons to Give Thanks
Dear Ann and everybody, It’s Thanksgiving Day here in the United States, and we send you all our love. I could easily get weepy this year, feeling thankful for so...