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  • 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

    A sideways shot of a pair of brown fingerless mitts resting on top of a golden cowl, both adorned with many bobbles. To the side are antique paper ephemera and a pink and white teacup.

    My Desert Island Yarns, or, the Five Yarns I’d Use Forever

    An antique stoneware jug is filled with dusty miller and olive branches sits on top of a small stack of blue and white plates.

    When a Creative Block Interrupts Your Knitting Plans

    A partially knit white hat on steel circular needles is laid flat on a wooden cutting board surrounded by dried eucalyptus, three dark gray stones, and a cream-colored doily.

    My Knitting Resolutions for the New Year

    A top-down view of two prints framed in gilded frames sitting on a dark brown desk.

    How I Found Inexpensive Grandmillennial Wall Art to Decorate My Design Studio

    A mostly-finished fingerless mitt and the cuff for the second mitt sit surrounded by antique books with floral and gilded covers, an antique postcard with flowers on it, and some white roses. I did a lot of knitflixing with this project.

    5 Cozy Knitflixing Recommendations for Winter Stitchathons

    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.

    Three Ways to Wear Knit Shawls in Different Shapes

    In the foreground are ornate brass scissors and three tan swatches of knit fabric. The middle distance in focus features a pile of creamy white knitting, a blue and white teacup and saucer, and a silver coffee pot. Blurred in the background is a pale floral sofa.

    On Learning How To Be More Creative in Easy Ways

    A softly variegated pink sock in progress sits on a table in front of a window at the airport in Portland, Oregon. I knit these socks while waiting for my flight home from Rose City Yarn Crawl 2023.

    Knitting in Public: 12 of The Wonderfully Odd Places I’ve Stitched

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    One of my goals this year is to read more physical One of my goals this year is to read more physical books. I read a ton of articles online and ebooks, too, but I missed the feeling of paper in my hands. So far, I’ve finished five books, and this is book number six of 2026.
    It’s finally here! The first pattern for the 2026 It’s finally here! The first pattern for the 2026 Golden Honey Sock Club, the Florilegium Socks, is now available either as part of the club or as a standalone pattern.

This pattern was designed with the gorgeous in-house sock yarn from @theknittingloungeshop, my local yarn store, and it is so luscious. Thanks so much to Corinne for the yarn support.

Tag me if you’re casting on this weekend! I want to see your versions of these socks.
    Winter blues are very real, and for me it has less Winter blues are very real, and for me it has less to do with cold and more to do with short days + no flowers in the garden. All my roses have been pruned back to stubs, so while I wait (im)patiently for the spring flush, this will have to do.
    I have been keeping quiet about this one, but it’s I have been keeping quiet about this one, but it’s time to let you know that the 2026 edition of the Golden Honey Sock Club is kicking off this Friday! 

This is my fourth year designing sock patterns for the club, and while I have run out of romance novel-inspired pattern names for now, rest assured that we haven’t strayed too far. The pattern names are still very bookish indeed.
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