Made By Humans
Affiliate links are included for your convenience. If you’re connected at all to the knitting world, and probably even if you’re not, you may have heard about the Pussyhat Project, which aims to outfit as many women as possible who are marching in the Women’s March on Washington with hats that look like cats. Even […]
Because I’m a knitter from way back, when I think about making scarves to #givewarmth, I naturally want to knit a scarf. Or a bunch of scarves. It happens that I’m also feeling a need to burn through as much of my yarn stash as possible (probably because it is pretty much all in my […]
I’m trying to get back into the swing of things since school is back in session, and one of the things I used to do regularly that I miss is Iron Craft at Just Crafty Enough. This week’s challenge was to produce something that could be entered at a state fair. While I didn’t actually […]
I have more than enough knitting needles as it is, but I always wanted to try to make knitting needles. Back when I was making stuff from hardware store finds, I was going to make some needles out of dowels, but I came up with something even easier when we were cleaning out the garage […]
I love knitting with needles, of course, but it’s always kind of a fun trick to make familiar things in unfamiliar ways, such as with finger knitting. I was reminded how fun finger knitting is when I taught the girl, who isn’t quite ready for knitting with needles just yet. It’s a quick and easy […]
This week’s Iron Craft challenge was supposed to be something unexpected. As expected, I had trouble coming up with something. But I’d had this idea that I wanted to make a bulky yarn to use in my classes this summer for demonstration purposes, so I decided to take this opportunity to do it. I don’t […]
My main knitting-related job has changed a lot in the past few months, to the point where I’m knitting a lot less for work than I used to be. I could be knitting for other outlets, selling patterns online, writing books or submitting to magazines, but it’s been really nice this year to mostly be […]