the knitty professors

[post by katie, by the way] I'm having trouble getting pregnant--along with all of my best friends, it seems. What a load of sh*t does A...

Jordynn and I talk a lot about "visual rhetoric"--a phrase in our field of research that essentially asks how images make and conv...

I've been out of town the past few days with my husband M.A.P., visiting his parents in Gastonia. I've been wrestling with a knittin...

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...

Watching the NH primaries this evening moves me to make an endorsement. As though this were necessary. As though it weren't obvious. N...

From NYTimes today, "Serfs of the Turf" by Michael Lewis: If the N.C.A.A. genuinely wanted to take the money out of college footb...

I don't always agree with NY Times columnist Frank Rich, but I enjoyed his take on Justice Clarence Thomas and his new whine-a-rama mem...

M.A.P. and I are on our honeymoon in a delightful little metropolis in the south. We stumbled upon a yarn store on our way to dinner while ...

My M.A.P. and I were sitting on the couch watching our new 50" plasma television (what the heck? clearly I wasn't a part of that d...

I used to have the world's best knitty friend. Her name is C . and she and I were housemates for a little while, while I was finishing...

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...

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

Here's what must happen this week: 1. Save The Date cards must be sent Thursday because my dear MAP asked me to marry him 2 weeks ago, a...