String Geekery

Woodland pinkroot (Spigelia marilandica)

I’d never seen this native wildflower before this past Wednesday – it’s really stunning! I was at Duke Gardens, in

There are two basic kinds of lace in knitting: the kind where you take a break between patterned rows or

This week’s regularly scheduled post isn’t going to happen (due to a confluence of personal events), so it’s a good

Edited to add, as of 27 Jan 2020: This is all very well and good if you want an extra

My friend Sarah designed and knit an awesome shawl using my secret code techniques and the Muslim concept of the

Last week, I was playing around with variations on the foundation base chain, and came up with this two yarn

What’s this fancy edging for this knitted swatch? Well, I started with this: The crocheters among you will probably recognize

I saw a link to a phototutorial for making this cast on on Pinterest, so I tried it out for

(Good for Tunisian crochet as well as knitting.) Some people will tell you to do a long-tail cast on with

Here’s an interesting way of increasing to start knitting cables, from Luise O’Neill of Impeccable Knits. A tutorial for a