It's Not an Error, It's a Design Feature Remember that stitch pattern I promised to write down for you? The one from the vintage b...

As I write this the view beyond the window is temporarily sunlit, through a tiny break in a bank of clouds otherwise as gray, threatening an...

Yarn Specifically, my own first handspun, which has now joined with Noro Silk Garden Lite to become a hat. It's far from perfect, but kn...

June was such a nutty month around here that I didn't get to cast for Wedding Ring Shawl 2.0 until earlier this week. At about an inch a...

This is a report from the Panopticon Mobile Unit, on assignment in Indiana. I arrived safely after a mostly uneventful bus ride. I say ...

So this weekend a friend and I went on a little road trip out of Chicago and finished up our intended errand earlier than expected. He sugge...

It was the first day in weeks without a pressing deadline looming. Dolores had taken the sock yarn down to the Art Institute for the Charles...

special to The Panopticon by Dolores Van Hoofen Knitter, spinner and author Shannon Okey , also known to the blog world as knitgrrl , is pr...

Ted is safely home in Canada, after an all-too-brief visit. He is a model houseguest: polite, considerate, neat, and brings wool with him. C...

Yeah, I know. But you can't hit it out of the ballpark every time, okay? Let's Answer Some Reader Questions Jax: I just have to hear...

I came home Saturday evening to what is now a familiar sound: Dolores shouting back at "The McLaughlin Group" on Channel 11, and o...

Since Dolores has been hogging the computer (not to mention the bathroom), I've spent quite a bit of time trying to make the suspended (...

As I was saying to Paris Hilton the other day, don't you just adore the Internet? You ask for suggestions about spinning on a drop spin...