the knitty professors

Katie gave me this lovely handspun yarn ages ago, and I just now figured out what I wanted to do with it. I’ve been making thick, cozy cowls...

[updated 14 Mar. 10] I bought a skein of yarn from a friend who recycles old fibers into bulky weight art yarns. Check her yarn out her...

Katie Rose here: [updated January 2015] Updated pattern PDF available as a $1 download from Ravelry, here . Bryher is one of the f...

Okay, this is the funniest thing I've read all week. Just think about it as you knit another scarf. And for your sweater knitters, chec...

Here's a recent FO, a scarf made with yarn I plied and dyed after reclaiming it from two thrift store sweaters. The pattern is "Nor...

[Updated 14 Mar. 2010] This pattern is available as a free PDF Ravelry download. Download now . I love luscious scarves, and I lov...

Here's the Twinkle Evening Shell I knitted on New Year's eve and wore that night: I worked hard to make the thing fit right, and fol...

[Updated 1-2-2008] Soft yarn and eyelets. Yummy. Or should I say, Buffy. Yarn selection, including color, is the most important element of...

I traveled to Tokyo to visit Rapt With Fiber and we went a little nuts with the yarn buying and knitting. First, we did a knit-along and ma...

[Update June 30, 2008] This pattern has been significantly revised and rewritten as a .pdf. You can download the .pdf here for free. I'...

[Update June 18, 2008: This pattern is called Bryher. It's now available on Ravelry , for free.] Here's a project I just finished. ...

I made the diamond scarf out of Wenlan Chia 's Twinkle's Big City Knits , but I realized I would never wear it. (According to Pearl...

I just finished my first profject out of Twinkle's Big City Knits by Wenlan Chia. I started with something easier -- the Diamond Scarf...

Given my propensity to start and start projects and leave them unfinished, and given that my dearest MAP is a furniture-builder when he'...

This post is for me, mostly. (Ha! Like all of these posts aren't "for me". Blogging is self-serving, self-aggrandizing, self...