It’s time for some topical whiplash. I’ve been asking you for the last week to look at new products and buy things, so it seems supremely weird to me to go from that to sharing deep heart-stories. But that’s about the full range of this blog: from marketing to mysteries. From the sublime to the [...]
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So yesterday, you got the pretty tale of Rose of Sharon: symbolism and style, with which I am immensely pleased, and for which I am immensely grateful, get thou not me wrong. But this was probably the most difficult design I have ever completed, and today you get the Rest of the Story. The first struggle [...] The idea for this shawl happened all at once, as these things often do. And it happened in church, as it often does to me. We were visiting the Church of the Ascension in that fancy area of Pittsburgh called Oakland, and over the side chapel I spotted this. I was lucky to have my camera [...] Jesus has so many names, it is hard to keep track. By the end of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Aragorn had so many names that I was quite confused, and he had only lived for eight-some years and just become king! In a fictional context like that, I learned that titles don’t have [...] It’s the night before Christmas, and all through the night, the knitter is frantically casting off tight. She’s wrapped all her gifts like a good little elf, And she’s so flippin’ ready to knit for herself. My hope in designing a pattern to be released in conjunction with Christmas was to have something fun, pretty, and entertaining for you [...] As a child, growing up in the Roman Catholic church, we always celebrated Advent. This is partially because I was a serious pyro child, so I got excited whenever there were matches and candles involved. (I still can’t believe Mom was letting me light the prayer candles at age 6. She is a brave woman.) [...] I have a thing about earflaps. That is, I love them. As we saw last week, the Advent KAL hat doesn’t structurally need earflaps. But I couldn’t live without adding these ornamental earflaps, with the long I-cord braids that hang from them. Of course, you can make the braids as long as you like; I’ve been told [...] What are your first associations with the word “comfort”? Comfort food? A big hug? A security blanket? Something you never got? Knitters know a thing or two about tangible comforts. We like to wrap ourselves and our loved ones up in wool, and we like to curl up on a cold winter’s night with a warm [...] It snowed most of the day today, and even stuck some. It was the perfect day to cuddle up with wool socks, hot coffee, and a space heater to crank out some Christmas presents. That’s not exactly what happened; I was working on Christmas presents, but there was no cuddling or knitting. It was mostly [...] Wreaths have a long history in the western world. They were worn and awarded in ancient Greece and Rome as a sign of status or achievement, and are still associated with festival costume. I have a wreath of dried flowers for my Renn fest costume that I still dust off every year. The history of the [...] |
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