Category: knitting
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Melt The Ice
There is nothing quite so nausiatingly surreal as watching my country descend into fascism while going through the motions of my every day life, relatively unchanged. One moment I’m watching a video of an ICE murder, and the next I’m going sledding with my kids, doing dishes, going to work so I can pay my…
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Protests & Layoffs
Caitlin and I have a joke that I am cursed to never be able to make her a hat that fits– to be fair, she has a really big head! I made her this hat a couple years ago and, alas, it is too small, so I’ve donated it to a fundraising auction at a…
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Always Learning
I made an upsetting discovery this week, that I’ve been knitting (or, rather, purling) wrong for years. Every knit design is made from a foundation of just two stitches, knit and purl, and they are supposed to be basically mirror images of each other. Apparently, on my purl stitch, I’ve been wrapping the yarn the…
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It Takes a Village
What should I write while the world is descends further into fascism? Our fragile and imperfect democracy is on the verge of collapse and the tenuous progress of the last few decades is swiftly unravelling. I’m scared, and angry, and tired, and lonely. I’ve spent a lot of time dissociating into my art in the…
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Hope, Fear, and Witchcraft
My wife once described my knitting as “weird, indecipherable magic that involves cursing as an incantation”. And she’s not wrong! I’m happy to say my most recent project was a fun and easy knit that involved very little cursing, but it was definitely still a weird and indecipherable magic and it made a profound impact…
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Getting my flow back
I think you all know by now that it’s been a bit of a rough year for me. I haven’t done much crafting at all. I hit a wall on a few of my ongoing projects and just couldn’t get into the right mindset to start something new. I really needed a relatively quick and…
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Owls & anti-capitalism
Today we’re getting just a little less personal, but a lot more political. I’m going to start with some questions: Do you like my art? Do you think it has value? What kind of value? Aesthetic value, sentimental value, spiritual value? What about monetary value? I’ve often been asked why I don’t try to monetize…
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Neurospicy Knitting
It’s been a while y’all. I’ve been having a rough time this past year, and I’m about to get real with you. Don’t worry, I’ll still include pretty pictures and highlight some knitwear that I’m really proud of! But my art is inextricable from my politics, and politics is personal, and I need to get…
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It runs in the family
Am I allowed to showcase something I didn’t make myself? It’s my blog, so I guess I can do whatever I want! I’m back at work now after my parental leave, and I’ve had a lot less time this week to work on my own crafts (or to write!). Last week my aunt, inspired by…
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Let’s try a sweater
If you have a hand knit sweater in your closet, you should know that whomever made it must be pretty fond of you. Sweaters use a lot of yarn, take a lot of time, and are generally really tricky to get right. Giving one as a gift is kind of a big deal. I’ve never…
The Owl Weaver 