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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...

So I've foolishly decided to try crochet. Not instead of knitting--no chance, no way--but as a useful adjunct to knitting. Sometimes...

Where do you mostly knit? Let's explore the possibilities, in the internet's time-honoured tradition of "Which Seinfeld character are...

As a genuinely happy person, I have few regrets in life. It's so convenient! Whenever anyone suggests you should have made different...

There are many great debates among knitters, including Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up, K2tog* vs. SSK*, English* vs. Continental*, tying knots...

So, the stash. Beginning knitters, beware ... like beginning dragons (who start with a ring or bracelet here or there, maybe a doubloon,...

Now that I've introduced myself, I thought I'd talk about how I began knitting. Everyone, to the best of my understanding, began in one...

Let's start with me, Uncle Stashley. That's a nom-de-plume, by the way, which is a French expression that means one is jealous of...

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