Project Spectrum is the creation of Lauren Weinhold of the Lolly Knitting Around blog. Her goal is to prod artists to explore the impact that color has on their lives and, in particular, their artsing and crafting, using a series of themes throughout the year. A good exercise for me, since, left to my own [...]
I dream of knitting sweaters. This time, I think, it will be different. I will finish a sweater. It will fit me. I will be truly happy. But then I remember! It always goes wrong, and I am left with a half-knitted sweater and a heap of unresolved anger issues. I opened the October 2009 [...]
I have discovered Mason-Dixon Knitting, and I have drunk the housewares knitting Kool-Aid. oh yeah! In a period of knitting bleh and the spleen that accompanies periods of excessive frogging, I found the women of Mason-Dixon Knitting, and their funny blog, and their hilarious books. The authors suggest knitting housewares because they are basically cute [...]
You should have a Serenity Prayer for frogging sweaters. You would address it, of course, to Elizabeth Zimmermann or the knitting deity of your choosing. It would allow you to accept the inevitability of knitting mistakes and foibles. You would say your prayer, take a deep breath, and frog away. The following three sweaters are [...]
