Needle storage ideas
For a while now, I’ve been trying to find a creative way to organize and store my circular knitting néedles. I tried this wall organizer last year, which I bought at a knitting store: I just wasn’t crazy about how big it was or the clothes hanger part of it. Read More…
WFUV Cityscape
Last weekend, I was lucky to be interviewed on this lovely program — the last 8 minutes of the show: http://www.wfuv.org/news/cityscape/110224/staying-warm-and-cozy-nyc Kristy
An experiment in repurposing yarn
I was in Grantham, NH for the holidays and started to get antsy not having a knitting project to work on. If I go a week without knitting, I seem to get cranky and I started to wonder where the nearest yarn store was. My sister and I go to Read More…
Tutorials
In my last post, I planned to provide top-down tutorials based on Barbara Walker’s teachings in her book, Knitting from the Top.
Upcoming Top-Down Tutorials
When I first started making items for my book, and formulating (with my editor Melanie Falick) how best to create a collection of items that I liked and that made sense to me, the most exciting part of the process (aside from visiting Melanie on a regular basis and showing her new things that I had made) was using techniques I learned from Barbara Walker’s book, Knitting from the Top.
Beginnings
Over the years, and wherever I have lived and landed, knitting and crochet have always brought me a great deal of joy. Starting at around age ten, I’d read through how-to books and experience a sense of calm that I didn’t find anywhere else.
