Author: Naomi Parkhurst

A useful index to keep blog posts in

By popular demand, I’ve put on my librarian hat and indexed the more than 200 posts I’ve written so far.

I’ve been talking with my friend Sarah Sipe about designing for a while, and now I’m also having design conversations

There’s an old kind of lace edging that always makes me grin, because it’s so different from all the other

My friend Rebecca very kindly agreed to do an occasional swatch for the crochet stitch patterns I’d like to try.

Every month, my backers on Patreon suggest words for me to encode as a stitch pattern (using the methods I’ve

I’ve come a long way in lace design over the last few years, but I feel I still have a

The idea was to see if beads could be added to knitted lace after the knitting was done. This isn’t

I wanted to add book posts to the mix again. I am, after all, a reference librarian by training. Also,

Just a little spinning. Half of a braid from Three Waters Farm, showing how different it can look before and

Here are some links to random fibery things I found of interest. (If you follow me on Pinterest, you’ll have