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I've been knitting hats again. I haven't figured out a good way to photograph hats, but I remembered that I have some hat images fr...

Yesterday, I needed to make a label for a hat I'd knitted from some 1980's-vintage silk yarn . The search engines showed me this exc...

I haven't knit a sweater for a long time, mostly because I haven't been pleased with the fit. I've tried dozens of approaches to...

It's another pair of fine-gauge mohair socks, finished last week with yarns from the Reagan administration . I still have a small colle...

A year ago, I unboxed my grandmother's doll, cleaned her up, and determined to make a period dress for her. She's still sitting on...

Here's my most recent knitting--socks from my crock-pot-dyed, hand-spun Rambouillet fleece. Several years ago, I decided that this nepp...

Here's another pair of socks from 2011, using oddities from my vintage yarn collection. This yarn is the same stuff I used for Heraldic...

Via Mirabilis.ca : A long sentence is worth the read --by Pico Iyer . Not everyone wants to be reduced to a sound bite or a bumper sticker....

I've finished another pair of socks from my vintage yarn collection. This yarn is what they used to call "baby weight," and...

Last summer, I had no time for fiber fun, but with too many jobs came enough cash to hit a half-price book sale at Interweave , which I th...

OK, this is the fifth and final pair of socks in my series of "Disappointing Silk/Wool Yarns by Rowan." This color work patter...

These socks are the fourth pair in my series of "Disappointing Silk/Wool Yarns by Rowan." By that, I don't mean the socks ...

I got to knit someone else a pair of socks for Christmas! (I am not surrounded by sock petitioners, and I hesitate to force unwanted hand k...

Here are the latest socks from my collection of disappointing silk skeins. In the early 1990's I found several discounted skeins of ...

More of the navy blue silk yarn, with more stripes of mohair scraps. This time, I made what Elizabeth Zimmermann called "Afterthought ...

There was a lovely yarn shop at Dupont Circle called The Woolgatherer, and I haunted the sale bins there in my grad school days. There was ...

I bought this partial skein of variegated pink mohair yarn in the 1980's, long before the development of commercial self-striping yarns...

I started knitting these socks as part of Sharon B's fiber arts community Take It Further Challenge, February 2008 . My participation ...

Add this little hat to my minimal knitting projects for 2009. The scarlet mohair came from my Regan administration yarn purchases, while t...

I have a decent collection of crochet patterns. My grandma left a collection, and some of my mom's knitting leaflets also include croche...