The Portable Knitting Research Project
Dear Ann, You know me: I’m always ready to do the hard science to test common claims about knitting. This month, for two weeks, I conducted a controlled inquiry into...
Travel
Adventures near and far, often involving knitting but always in beautiful places.
Did Not Knit for Ten Days: A Tale of Survival
Dear Kay, It’s not that I didn’t have any knitting with me—I mean, I had my official Wanderlust TravelPakTM stoked up with 1.25 pair of socks, my Field Guide No....
In Search of Lost Shakerag
Dear Ann, I’m still coming down from our weekend in Sewanee, Tennessee at the MDK Knitting Getaway. I need to reenter daily life gently. Baby steps. I feel it would...
Postcards from Alabama
Dear Ann, I’ll see your picture postcards from Boston and the Common Cod Fiber Guild, and raise you a few Kodak Carousel slides from a former T-shirt factory in Florence,...
Postcards from Boston
Dear Kay, Just back from a long weekend that included a magnificent hangout with the knitters of the Common Cod Fiber Guild, as well as time spent with my two...
Karida Collins
Dear Kay, This is not a new podcast, but it’s a good one. Miriam Felton has been teaching and designing knitwear for a good long while now, and her Yarn...
Postcards from Edinburgh Yarn Festival
Dear Ann, What a time we had! This past weekend was my first time at Edinburgh Yarn Festival. One time was all it took to add this one to my list...
A Knitter’s Weekend: Toronto
Like many knitters, I plan my travels around yarn stores—and that includes trips to my former hometown, Toronto. These days, when I’m in the city, I’m on a whistle-stop tour,...
A Knitter’s Weekend: Taos, New Mexico
We are delighted to welcome Cyndi Lee to MDK as a contributor. Founder of a yoga center in New York, and a lay Buddhist chaplain, Cyndi now teaches yoga and meditation,...
Postcards from New York
Dear Kay, Looking through all these snapshots from Vogue Knitting Live this past weekend in New York, I just keep smiling. Imagine 8,000 knitters wedged into the architectural wackiness of...
Best of 2018: Knitter’s Weekends
Oh, the places we’ve been! Our Knitter’s Weekend series takes us all over the world, in the company of a knitter who has in-depth knowledge of the locale and takes...
Rhinebeck 2018: Joy Out the Wazoo
Dear friends, We heard more than one person say this was their favorite Rhinebeck of all. For a couple of chilly October days, thousands of knitters and shepherds and yarnmakers...