Sailing Away
March 21, 2024I’ve been working behind the scenes to organize something really big, and I’m so excited to share the news with you all! In August of 2025, I’ll be hosting the KnitNorth 2025 Alaska knitting cruise — an 11-day cruise leaving out of San Francisco. Onboard we’ll have three terrific instructors: me, Xandy Peters, and color aficionado Karen Heitkamp, and so much knitting and crazy fun planned! The itinerary includes Glacier Bay, which I’m really excited about, plus Ketchikan, Skagway, Juneau, Victoria, B.C., and cruising through the Inside Passage. It also includes plenty of sea days for knitting classes, lectures, parties,…
Knitting Along
/ January 8, 2024In deference to the New Year’s resolution I made about my knitting (you can read about that here if you missed it), I’m giving myself permission to knit things for fun this year, and sometimes that means…
New Thoughts About New Year’s Resolutions
/ January 5, 2024Happy New Year, knitters! Do you make New Year’s resolutions? I generally don’t, but I was thinking about them in new ways, particularly in terms of my knitting, and realized I did have things I wanted to…
Come Sail Away With Me
/ December 1, 2023If you don’t already know this about me… my happiest place is by the water. So when the Cephalopod Sisters of Northwest Yarn & Fiber asked me to be the knitting instructor on their August 2024 nautical…
What’s the Buzz?
/ November 22, 2023There’s a lot of buzz this week as TWO different gift-a-longs are starting up. That means fun, prizes, and plenty of pattern discounts! In fact, these are the deepest pattern discounts I offer all year, so if…
Perfect Pie Crust
/ October 27, 2023I know that’s a big claim, perfect pie crust. Aren’t we all looking for it? And don’t we all have a different definition of what that is? My perfect pie crust is light and crisp more than…
Which Hat? Which Yarn?
/ October 13, 2023I know, it’s so hard to choose! I always love to give you a choice, so I’ve chosen two cool hat patterns for our Fall KAL, and you get to pick which one you want to do.…
Off to See the Knitters!
/ October 3, 2023Today’s a packing day for me, as I’m getting ready for a very busy weekend. I’ll be teaching Friday at the Mountain and Valley Wool Festival in Santa Fe, Sunday at Lambtown in Dixon, California, and Monday…
Time for Another Knitalong!
/ September 20, 2023I think fall is a great time to knit hats. It’s getting cooler so we might need a new one, and it’s also the time of year when we might be starting to think about holiday presents.…
Yarn Review: Atlas
/ July 24, 2023I’ve got a new pattern on the needles, and a new-to-me-yarn that I’m excited to review for you: Modern Daily Knitting’s Atlas. I don’t often have time to knit up non-design work, but at the most recent…