Hamsa Scarf, and the Start of Fall Knitting

I loooooove this scarf. Love love love. It may be my favorite FO ever. I had fun knitting those shawls this summer, and they are much more technically complicated than this, but that’s exactly the problem — they’re a little too fancy to bust out for everyday wear, whereas this is something I forsee myself [...]

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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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