Last month I wrote a piece for Lion Brand Yarns that mentioned an almost century-old pattern that I've had my eye on. This is it: L...

I don't know if you'll have missed me, but I sure missed you. It's been some couple of months, kids. Between work (happily, lo...

I must be spring, because Knitty says so. The new issue is up. I'm ready for spring. We have had a shockingly mild winter in Chicago,...

Dear Anonymous Nineteenth-Century Designer, Often, as I wend my way through your patterns, I wonder who you were and where you lived. ...

The First Fall 2010 issue of Knitty is live, and my contribution to the potluck is Flo , a little elephant with an interesting history. My ...

Those of you who are too young to have experienced the 1970s can never fully comprehend them. The cultural débris it left behind like a ret...

When I was a junior in college, studying art history, my tutorial group of six drove from Boston to New York to have an in-person look at se...