A Knitting Blog Archive

  • How to Find Where You’re at on an Old WIP

    How to Find Where You’re at on an Old WIP

    Picking up an old work-in-progress sometimes has its challenges if you didn’t leave detailed notes somewhere easy to find! My projects using other designers’ patterns tend to be extremely long term projects that get put on hold for months at a time, so I’ve got a lot of practice trying to work out the mysteries…

  • Outfit Along 2019 Begins + Resources

    Outfit Along 2019 Begins + Resources

    The Outfit Along officially begins today! If you haven’t shared your own Outfit Along plans in the OAL thread in the Untangling Knots group or under the hashtag #outfitalong2019, now is a good time to let us know what you’re working on. My own plans for my outfit include a knitting WIP that’s a colorwork…

  • The Outfit Along 2019

    The Outfit Along 2019

    Knit a piece. Sew a piece. Make an outfit. June 1st-July 31st. Get ready for the Outfit Along: WIP Cleanout! The Outfit Along is an annual craft-along thats pairs a sew-along with a knit-along to create a custom outfit, but this year we’re shaking things up and focusing on works-in-progress. The goal this year will…

  • So You Want to Be a Designer

    So You Want to Be a Designer

    About a month ago, conversations on Instagram started popping up about why designers were so secretive about how to become a designer. My first thought was that it was a weird complaint because I picked up everything I knew from information shared by other designers, but then I realized that the useful blog and forum…

  • 2019 Goals

    2019 Goals

    At the beginning of every years, for most of the life of this blog, I’ve shared my goals for the new years relating to knitting and design work, and I’ve reviewed how I did with the previous year’s goals. At the beginning of this year, I decided to keep things simple and make my only…