the knitty professors

Katie and I are in St. Louis at a conference, but these two items came up on my Facebook news feed today and I thought I'd share. 1) Get...

You may recognize this sweater from Vogue Knitting, Fall 2008. It’s the very popular Green Gable hoodie (below), only this one is knit in...

These photos are from the Billy Barnes Collection at the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina. Children knitt...

In 1851, British chemist John Mercer discovered that treating cotton yarn with sodium hydroxide brought about changes in the fiber. Mercer...

My new summer pattern, Plath, is now available at for $4.95. The pattern comes in 8 sizes, from XS-XXL! Born in 1932, Sy...

I went to the thrift store yesterday and found this gorgeous alpaca sweater. The sweater itself was a stupid shape, but I had my M.A.P. try...

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

Here's the latest and final reincarnation of the Classic Elite "Alaska" yarn, yarn that has seen two prior lives on this very ...

I love shrugs. I bought my first one at Nordie's last summer and then lost it last fall, around the same time that I learned how to kni...

[update 12-2009] Available now in S, M, and L, for $3.00 Clarissa is now available in an expanded .pdf format with sizes for S, M, L...

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...

So my best friend in the world is pregnant. This is excellent news on the knitting front. There's nothing like sitting down to an episo...

There are a few things I've discovered over the few months I've been on hiatus from this blog. I am a free-form fiber artist. That...

Here's a reinvention / recycling project to try. Go to a thrift store and buy a cheap, ugly, 100% wool knit hat. Felt the hat. (Look u...

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

UPDATE 5/2008: I revised this project--the new project is posted on this blog here . Here are pics of the finished product, the "Two-To...

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

Who doesn't love Stefanie Japel 's new book Fitted Knits ? I certainly do. Top-down construction (raglan-style), circular knitting...