When I first started swatching this shape last week from a stitch I found in an old German knitting book, I wondered what it would be called. Septagon came to mind, though it didn’t sound quite right. As it turns out, use of the term “septagon” is not recommended by Wolfram Mathworld:
A heptagon is a […]

The interview with Marly (Yarn Thing) yesterday afternoon went just fine, in spite of my nervousness. I didn’t drop the ball at all, left no gaping holes in the conversation, though there were a couple of short, panicky burst of laughter on my end. Eek. Mary Beth nicely stopped by the live site to lend […]

Yarn Thing
I’m going to be interviewed on a live podcast on Thursday! Eek.
Yup. Marly, Yarn Thing, will be chatting me up on the air on Thursday afternoon at 4 pm Mountain time. I’m excited, scared, nervous, honored, totally blown away… I’ve never done anything like this before. It’ll be fun. (It’s my new mantra: […]

The finished brown sweater… isn’t
It took me a while, but I eventually came to the realization that the brown sweater that took me ages to knit, frog, and re-knit, piece by piece, that had eventually been sewn together and worn (sans buttons), had to be completely ripped out and started over. I realized that I’d […]

Yup. I bought a pile of luscious yarn at Stitches West last month. I’ll tell you all about it, but not today. Today I want to tell you about what I saw in the latest Vogue Knitting magazine this morning.
I’d just finished the last three pages of Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, and was looking around […]