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Some people are scared of colour. Not to the extent that they wake in the morning, brush their teeth, then don their transparent outfits...

We've all been there: it's a sunny August afternoon, and you're in the kitchen, busily creating clarified lime juice with your home...

Knitting, what is it? I've often wondered. So I sat down and took a good look at what I was doing, and turns out it's using pointy...

Have you ever felt, while stirring your daily dinner gruel, that if only you owned a self-stirring gruel pot you could be spending that...

As you venture into the wilds of the Kingdom of Fibre Arts, you will encounter many beasts. Knitters of all types descend upon Lake Local...

Double Knitting. Like how airplanes fly, or the appeal of Sean Hannity, it's one of life's mysteries. Lucky for us, we don't have to...

Uncle Stashley likes to knit almost as much as he likes to read (I haven't, for instance, begun to knit in the bathtub yet, although now...

You know the feeling ... you pick up your knitting (enter the woods), happily knit a few rounds (gather flowers for Grandma), and before...

When Stephanie Pearl-McPhee and I were discussing her book Knitting Rules!, she mentioned she considered it her only truly useful book....

I started writing about knitting with colour, and before I knew it I was creating a graduate-level thesis on colour theory ... riveting...