Tag: buy local

  • Hope, Fear, and Witchcraft

    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…

  • Let’s try a sweater

    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…