Math4Knitters

No matter how many times I do it, I get a kick out of making just the heel turns with my students. Here you see, in gray, just the abs...

Modern knitters are often a bit shocked to hear about sock seams that run under the heel (and even, under the entire foot , as in this...

Is there anything like it? 

I...think we might have enough, now. I'm actually grateful for my black-sock knitting. If I had been distracted by color chang...

I haven't found a perfect way to teach Kitchener Stitch, or Grafting, to everybody. All of the methods that use "go through thi...

This is what I'm trying to do. from The Opinionated Knitter I don't want to compare myself, directly, to Elizabeth Zimmer...

Gauge swatch, in action. This question came up in an Amazon review: " How many people can make a first anything...fit perfectly w...

It's a bit strange. Literally, a (little) wall of my work. Those are 4 boxes that contain 88 of my books. I'm getting ready fo...

Last night, Fragile, my socks, Dee, Leslie and I hit the road so that I could speak to the Minnesota Knitters' Guild about The His...

I like to think. I like to knit. I like to think about knitting. I just don't always like to think about my knitting (or count too much)...

This is the front of the sock. The bulges in the socks are from me cramming my fist in to them, not a feature of the socks! I d...

This is another swatch, plus my hat, wrap and coat. It's COLD! What are you casting on this week? 

Does anyone else ever end up knitting weird bits and pieces of socks, just to see if they work (or prove that they do)?

I will do a more thorough review of this yarn later, but I just wanted to take a moment to share this little gem with you. It's a ...

Say what you will, but you can't beat sport-weight yarn for instant sock gratification. Pair that with self-striping? Magic. ...

My basement office was once an apartment of sorts, we think. It has a tiny powder room adjacent to it and an area with countertops and a sin...

The folks at Dream in Color yarn were generous enough to give me two skeins of their yarn to give away - twins to the exact skeins I u...

I recently shocked a new-to-knitting friend when I told her that not every yarn is designed to be washed by machine. If you don't ...

I knit socks on dpns. I like them. I find them fast and I can really crank down on them for a tight gauge. But, I always have a good c...

I had a great time last night at Twisted Loop Yarn Shop ! I placed my pile of socks next to a cute tray of sock cookies that Jenni b...