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  • A flatlay photo of a pair of plain handknit socks. The socks are knit in a softly variegated pink and cream yarn, with contrasting cuff and toes in darker pink. The toes point to the right. The socks are surrounded by greenery, white flowers, and a white teacup filled with milky Earl Grey.

    My Vanilla Sock Recipe

    A close-up on a shawl pin made of a brass circle of art nouveau-style calla lilies and a wooden stick pin.

    Four Tips to Keep Knit Shawls from Slipping

    A pink and cream hat composed entirely of mitered squares is laid flat on a textured gray surface. It's surrounded by a gold and white teacup full of tea, white roses, antique paper ephemera, two cakes of leftover yarn in the same colors as the hat, and a mitered square in progress on two tiny steel needles.

    Learning to Knit Mitered Squares from Woolly Wormhead

    A top-down image of a flatlay on a white marble countertop. In the center is a blue knit baby bonnet. The bonnet has red ribbing around the brim and white scalloped crochet trim. There is white and red roosimine and French knot detailing just above the ribbed brim. The bonnet is surrounded by leftover skeins of yarn, antique paper ephemera, and a gold and white teacup full of tea.

    About that Time I Tried Roosimine with My Knitting

    A top-down image of a light blue swatch knit in Knit Picks Stroll, along with a pair of fingerless mitts knit in the same yarn and a ball of leftover yarn. They are surrounded by white roses, antique paper ephemera, and a teacup full of tea.

    Yarn Review – Knit Picks Stroll

    A top-down image of three purple yarn swatches, a teacup full of espresso, some old books, and a pitcher full of roses just peeking into the left corner of the image.

    Should You Use a Slip Stitch Knitting Edge?

    A woman in a black baseball cap, gray sweater, and black leggings sits knitting on a rocky outcropping with the ocean and some dramatic, looming clouds behind her.

    Nine Tips for Successful Travel Knitting (Updated for 2025)

    Four socks, stacked on each other in alternating blue and gray, photographed straight on. They're surrounded by yellow, white, and pink roses, a teacup full of coffee, doilies, and antique postcards..

    How to Make a Budget Yarn Look Like a Million Bucks

    How to Knit a Blanket Using Any Stitch Pattern

    How to Knit a Blanket Using Any Stitch Pattern

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    Just a few days left until my first new shawl patt Just a few days left until my first new shawl pattern in years is released! I’m so excited to share this one with you all.

This project has been such a fun collaboration with my dear friend @aimeeshermakes, whose new Comfort Silk Linen yarn is the dream blend of 50% merino, 25% linen, and 25% silk. It’s the perfect fiber blend for lightweight summer knits, and it goes so well with the open work of this shawl’s stitch pattern.

Aimee and I will have a couple treats for you in our newsletters on Friday when this shawl comes out, so make sure you’re signed up for both of them!
    I block everything always, and here’s a great exam I block everything always, and here’s a great example of why. This gorgeous @camelliafibercompany yarn transforms after a gentle soaking and laying flat to dry. No pins or wires or special blocking forms needed!
    Please tell me I’m not the only one whose project Please tell me I’m not the only one whose project bags end up with random bits and bobs shoved in them. I know the whole point of a project bag is to protect my project from all of the other random bits and bobs floating around in my main bag, but sometimes things don’t go according to plan here.
    A Continuous Smell of Steam gets its name from a p A Continuous Smell of Steam gets its name from a passage in North and South where Fanny Thornton complains about how noisy and smoky Milton is. An industrial city in the 1850s is probably not where you’d want to wear this delicate white shawl, but the color and stitch pattern reminded me of billowing steam. I couldn’t help myself.

The pattern for this shawl is coming on June 5. I used two skeins of @aimeeshermakes Comfort Silk Linen (kindly provided as part of our collaboration) to knit my sample and had enough left over that I may make a matching little scarflet.

Are you ready to cast on yet or do you still need to pick out your yarn?
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