STITCHES Expo at Home offers people access to the best teachers and vendors, and I am teaching two classes in June. STITCHES is known for their top-notch events, and these virtual shows allow access to everyone, regardless of location. I’m teaching Take Flight – Knitting Your First Lace Shawl as well as Shetland Sky, Sea,…
The past few weeks I’ve blogged and uploaded several videos detailing some of the more interesting bits of my Autumn Colors Fair Isle cardigan by Betts Lampers. This is a complex and entertaining project that I began on the way to STITCHES West last year, which was the last big event Lost City Knits attended…
How it happens ……… Next week Lost City Knits will release a new design, my 39th pattern since May 2010. In the past ten years I have come to understand and find comfort in the ebb and flow of my design process. There are always new ideas popping into my mind. Some make it, and some…
I don’t know about you, but with the pandemic I’m doing a good bit of stress knitting and sewing. I pick things up. I put things down. I have two sweaters on the needles and yet decide I need to knit a hat. I sew another dozen PPE masks and decide to start a new…
For over a year, I have been taking photographs of hands at work at the various events we have attended all over the country, and since July of 2019, there has often been a gallery of some of these photos next to the Lost City Knits booth. We were supposed to be at the DFW FiberFest in Irving,…
The 2020 Shetland Wool Week patron is Wilma Malcolmson, and her hat pattern, Katie’s Kep, is available for free on the Shetland Wool Week website. Shetland Wool Week is a world renowned celebration of Britain’s most northerly native sheep, the Shetland textile industry and the rural farming community on these islands. Shetland wool is a world…
Several times in recent years I’ve had the experience of narrowing down my life in times of crisis. I think of it as cutting out the frivolities, focusing on the essentials, getting to the basics of human existence both physical and emotional. Through them, I’ve knit or done some sort of handwork. As Elizabeth Zimmermann…
Everyone needs this right about now. People are worried. There are real concerns, and there is also some panic. Discerning between the two requires a level head. We are being careful but not fearful, taking this time to be reminded of how interconnected we all are. Sure, some of our events may be cancelled, and those…