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  • A woman's feet wearing two mismatched socks rest on the faded floral cushions of a vintage sofa. The left foot wears a pink sock with a heel flap and gusset. The right foot wears a green sock with a Fleegle heel.

    Knitting My First Fleegle Heel: A Review

    Three gray swatches of different ribbing styles sit on a weathered outdoor wooden table along with some pink socks, a blue cowl, and a gray-green hat.

    3 Steps to Choose the Best Ribbing for Your Knitting Project

    A white woman's left hand holds some small-circumference knitting on progress on its tiny circular knitting needles. The needles have a longer tip on the right hand side than on the left hand side.

    Knitting Needle Review: Addi Sock Wonder

    A pair of handknit cabled socks in a dusty pink color sits on top of a white dresser next to a skein of darker pink yarn and a skein of deep burgundy yarn.

    How to Know Whether You’re Getting a Good Knitting Pattern

    A basket of yarn with balls, hanks, and cakes sits on the lower shelf of a brown wooden table.

    Understanding Yarn Put-Up and Why It Matters

    A white woman's left hand holds a tube of pale peach knitting with significant laddering issues at the spot where the needles join.

    How to Fix Laddering in Your Knitting

    A blue multicolored sock in progress on two circular needles is laid out on a table top next to some finished pink socks and a few balls of pastel yarn.

    Knitting Socks on Two Circular Needles

    Five pairs of handknit socks in various shades of pink and white are laid out across the back of a vintage sofa with floral upholstery.

    The Knitter’s Guide to Sock Knitting Vocabulary

    A white woman's hands hold a set of KnitPro Karbons knitting needles while she works on knitting a pair of pink mittens.

    Knitting Needle Review: KnitPro Karbonz

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    Pattern sale alert! My annual summer small accesso Pattern sale alert! My annual summer small accessories sale kicked off yesterday, and this year, you don’t need a discount code. All the patterns included in the sale are already 20% off.

And these three patterns are all included! Which one do you want to cast on first?
    Having some big feelings today about how much I lo Having some big feelings today about how much I love this work and how grateful I am for it. It is joyful, fulfilling, nourishing, and good.

When I was in law school, I used to joke that I wished I could just get paid to knit all day. I never imagined that I could build a career that involved even a little knitting every day. Turns out there’s a lot more involved in running a knitting design business, but every day has at least a little stitching time in it. 

Thanks to all of you for helping to make it possible.
    I cast on this Musselburgh Hat on Friday because I I cast on this Musselburgh Hat on Friday because I was going camping with a group of little Girl Scouts and I knew I wanted something I could knit in the dark around the campfire. I like having a project that is entirely stockinette so I don’t have to look at it but can still keep stitching. 

How about you? Do you enjoy some simple stockinette knitting or does the tedium make you want to cry?
    My options seem to be either arriving very early o My options seem to be either arriving very early or arriving late, so I’ll go with the former whenever I can. Luckily, knitting is portable and quiet, so I can take it with me into waiting rooms, offices, parking lots, pickup lines, wherever. I even took mine to Girl Scout camp last weekend 🤭
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