Postcards from the Knitting Getaway
90 miles southeast of Nashville—a sublime combination of inspiration, community, and dessert.
90 miles southeast of Nashville—a sublime combination of inspiration, community, and dessert.
Dear Ann, Isn’t it wonderful how the deeper we go into knitting, the more we enjoy the process (as opposed to just the products) of knitting, and the more processes...
Tidying tips that will let you get back to making stuff.
Behind the scenes with MDK Creative Director Melanie Falick, whose color palettes are small works of art.
Dear Kay, I bought floss. A great whackin’ pile of minty-fresh embroidery floss. Twenty-five cents for the lot of it. At a yard sale where some lady never really got...
Suggestions for making knitting friends and for getting family accustomed to your sticks and strings habit.
Dear Ann, In this season of gratefulness, I’ve been thinking about how I’ve wished for a knitting group, and how funny it is that when it finally arrived (like a...
A few years ago, I discovered Jade Sapphire Mongolian Cashmere, and went kind of nuts on the stuff. The first thing I made was a modified version of the Wool...
It's July 4th and we're taking a holiday from everything but knitting (and sewing).
Dear Kay, I’ll be brief. In this political season, my car bumper is now sporting these stickers: “I’d Rather Be Banging Out a Sweater,” “Mary Jane Mucklestone for Metro School Board,”...
Project fidelity is not the be-all and end-all of knitting happiness.
Went off the deep end yesterday at a workshop with Rinne Allen, the photographer I’ve admired ever since I saw her work in the Alabama Chanin books. Such fun to meet the...