For some reason, May is a month with a lot of fiber arts related challenges going on. Just for fun, I will see how many of them I can participate in without making any serious effort. Me-Made-May has been around for a while, and is just a challenge to wear and share images of yourself… Continue reading A Challenging Month
One of my favorite things about knitting is that there’s always something new to learn. Someone’s always inventing something new or refining an existing technique or rediscovering an old technique or something. So if you want to, you can always be learning and growing. I don’t want to do that every day – sometimes you… Continue reading Always More Stuff to Learn
The Art of Landscape Knitting by Anne Le Brocq is an interesting knitting book that gives you knitting block or repeat patterns that represent different types of terrain or things you would see in nature. Le Brocq is a geographer as well as a knitter, so she has a unique insight into different types of… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: The Art of Landscape Knitting
Traditional Knitting in North Russia is a kind of tough book to review. It is interesting and informative, on the one hand. But kind of frustrating on the other hand. It is self-published by the author, Catherine Maslova, and was pretty clearly written and published on a shoestring. The author is clearly very knowledgeable. She… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Traditional Knitting in North Russia
The Shetland Trader books by Gudrun Johnston are labors of love and her effort to preserve the knitting styles of a particular place and time. Specifically, the Shetland islands in the 1970 through a company her mother owned and ran, The Shetland Trader. Interestingly, Gudrun’s mom was not a knitter herself. She designed the motifs… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: The Shetland Trader Vol 3
This weekend I took some online classes with Rowan Connect! Rowan offers online events throughout the year, sometimes just short previews of upcoming magazines or collections, sometimes multi-day events. This weekend was a multi-day event called Rowan Connect. They offered a bunch of different classes Friday through Sunday, and a number of complimentary events as… Continue reading Rowan Connect
Quite A Yarn 