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  • A flatlay image of a red knit hat in progress and a finished gray knit hat on a table surrounded by a teacup, a teapot, and an antique book.

    4 Tips to Knit a Hat From the Top Down With Style

    A tan square of knit material in progress is displayed on a pair of bamboo straight knitting needles. It's surrounded by balls of yarn, other knit squares, antique doilies, an intaglio, a pair of ornate scissors, and a tiny silver tray with a brass key and pink tassel in it. Everything sits on top of several vintage lace doilies.

    Knit a Blanket on Straight Needles: Tips for Beginners

    A tan handknit hat sits on a white dresser top surrounded by antique books and a basket full of mini skeins of pastel yarn.

    Three Things You Might Not Know About Free Knitting Patterns

    A white woman's hands (mine!) use very small steel knitting needles to start a pink garter-tab cast-on. Blurred in the background are a white stoneware pitcher full of knitting needles, green and white balls of yarn, and a green knit sock.

    How and Why to Use a Garter Tab Cast On (With Tutorial)

    A close-up on the toes of a pair of handknit gray socks. This image shows that the toes are knit with a whimsical star toe construction.

    How to Knit a Star Toe (Toe Up and Cuff Down)

    A crescent-shaped shawl in pale blue and yellow stripes is draped around the torso of a white dressmaker's form. In the background is a large monstera plant, a brick fireplace, and some framed antique prints on the walls.

    Easy Crescent Shawl Knitting Formula – Free Tutorial

    A flatlay photo showing four mini triangle shawls in slightly different shapes at the bottom center. They're surrounded by a plate full of mini yarn balls, an antique pitcher filled with knitting needles and crochet hooks, and a white teacup and saucer full of tea.

    How to Knit a Triangle Shawl for Beginners: 4 Easy Shapes

    A light green knit hat, a brown knit wrap, and a pair of peach knit socks are all displayed on the back of a chair. Each of the knit items has lots of different styles of cables.

    How to Easily Cable Knit Without a Cable Needle

    A white knit shawl in progress is piled on top of a dresser. Slightly blurred in the background are lots of antique books and a basket full of mini skeins of yarn.

    11 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Knitting

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    The pattern for the Thalassic Shawl is now live! The pattern for the Thalassic Shawl is now live! 

If you are a newsletter subscriber, you’ve got a nice little 30% discount code sitting in your inbox, but don’t let it sit for too long. The tide goes out on the discount code at 11:59 pm Pacific Time on September 7. 

Are you ready for shawl weather yet? Tell me how things are looking where you live! It’s still way too hot for comfort here but that’s okay. We had a very mild summer up until a couple weeks ago.
    Here we go again! The new sample for the Berry Sco Here we go again! The new sample for the Berry Scone Shawl is slowly growing. 

I did a lot of work on it over the weekend while we watched a couple movies and had some family get together. This one doesn’t have an actual deadline, though, so I’m going to have to set it aside for some other, more urgent project. 

Stay tuned for updates later.
    It’s easy to get so focused on taking pretty pic It’s easy to get so focused on taking pretty pictures that you forget to take useful pictures.

And yet, it’s so important to know what a shawl looks like in its entirety, which you can really only see when the shawl is laid flat, hung across a wide span, or spread out across something.

These photos give you a sense of just how big this shawl is and how the stitch pattern looks across the entire thing.

Pattern coming on Friday! Make sure you’re on my newsletter to get the release weekend discount. If you’re not there yet, comment “newsletter” and you’ll get a DM so you can sign up.
    Glimmers of joy from recent wanderings and adventu Glimmers of joy from recent wanderings and adventures. I’ve been knitting socks (as usual), wallowing in floral bed linens, taking walks among the cutest little houses, and so on.

Remember, you can find joy without spending a ton of money. Stop to sniff your neighbor’s flowers as you pass by on your walk. Take a picture of something unexpected. Sing your favorite song while you cook dinner.

Joy is all around if you just know where to look for it.
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