Twist CollectiveDarn It All!
by Kate Gilbert Last February, I put on one of my favorite pairs of socks—one of the first pairs I ever made. They’re a lovely toe-up design that I managed to squeak out of one precious hank of Lorna’s Laces Lucky Stripe Shepherd Sock back when I lived in Paris, some ten years ago. And that’s when I found the holes. Four of them. Figuring them for goners, I sent a tweet saying that they were biting the dust, and I prepared to say goodbye. Then the responses, urging me to darn them, started filling my feed. Somehow I had absorbed the idea that socks with holes weren’t worth saving. (Who said that you should drop the offending pair in the trash bin, saying “oh darn!” as you do?). The tweets suggested otherwise. The Error of Our Ways Part 3: Grave Errors
by Robin Melanson By now, intrepid knitter, you are quite confident in picking up your dropped stitches, correcting your stitching errors, and conquering the subtle art of perfection. You have mastered the microcosm of the world of errors. Your garment is perfectly knitted; no mistake has been made that has not also been unmade. What’s left to learn? At some point (it happens to the best of us) you will stitch a garment that, despite careful attention, presents a flaw: the sleeves are too long, the ribbing flips up because it was worked too loosely, the body is too short, or the yoke pattern is not correctly centered. How are you going to fix these things without beginning again? How will you keep this garment off the tragic (and expensive) pile of Things That Must Not Be Worn? Let us explore…. Swatch It! Winter 2013
by Clara Parkes The premise of this column has always been that I would pick one garment, something that has piqued my knitterly curiosity for one reason or another, and see what happens if I bypass the recommended yarn and try something different. My goal has never been to tell you what yarns to substitute, but, rather, to get you thinking about yarns in a different, broader, more experimental way. Sometimes, the projects Kate has assembled for an issue are all so tantalizing that it's painful, nay, impossible to choose just one. Which is why, instead, I'd like to share my thought process behind five projects I'd love to swatch in this issue. Adventures in Knitting History
by Lee Ann Dalton
I Remember Three Yarn Shops
by Franklin Habit One. It hadn’t rained for months, but the atmosphere of the shop was damp. Damp and still. Nothing moved when I came in. Not the gaunt figure behind the cash desk. Not the angular figures bent over the adjacent table. I thought of Howard Carter poking his head into the tomb of Tutankhamun. Like Carter, I saw wonderful things, but no signs of life. The figure behind the desk shifted slightly and spoke. “Yes?” “I, well, I’m looking for, um, I was wondering…” “Yes?” “I want to learn to knit.” More Articles... |
