Welcome to Crazytown, Population: Me

I propose that Elizabeth Freeman is the Thomas Pynchon of the knitting world. She appeared out of nowhere with a background in science, wrote two of the most original, complicated, but ultimately very readable shawl patterns in recent memory, and is totally reclusive. Her Ravelry profile exists but is blank, and she doesn’t appear to [...]

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On the Needles

For the past week or so I have been blissfully polygamous with my projects, but yarn is in the mail for the shawl I’ll have to prioritize for a Labor Day wedding (not at Burning Man, to my great annoyance), so I wanted to document these projects for you before they get sidelined for awhile. [...]

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Grafting Fail

One of my students recently reminded me of Fail Blog, an internet phenomenon whereby people send in pictures that give evidence of people failing at life in various ways, with the word “FAIL” emblazoned on them to heighten the hilarity and shame. I had my students write responses to the final chapter in the 1976 [...]

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Geometric Shawl

I finished my geometric shawl about a week ago, but have just now gotten around to the photoshoot! Lest you think I have become some kind of shawl-producing machine, I urge you to recall that I started this thing back in May, but I put it and everything else aside while I cranked out that [...]

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Laminaria

My Laminaria is finished! I dropped all my other knititng projects to work on it exclusively for the past few weeks, in order to make sure that I finished it in time for my friends’ wedding in July. It’s pictured in these shots with the dress I plan to pair it with for the wedding. [...]

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