What If Our Craft Starts to Hurt?
Sometimes, after knitting for a few hours, my hands begin to hurt. Did I take a break? No. Have I stretched at regular intervals? No.…
Category: Fibre Arts Articles
Let’s Make Crafting Time Work For Us!
Every day, we are making judgement calls about what is truly worth focusing on. Those judgement calls lead to trade-offs between the time and attention…
Healing with Knitting: An Interview with Louise
Learning is hard when it’s new, but what about when you have to learn it all over again? That becomes not only physically hard, but…
Twist And Shout: Why Twist Direction Matters In Your Making
Let’s have a look under the hood to see how and why the twist direction of our yarns can make or break a project.
Frogging & The Art of Project Management
Lisa Congdon calls it loud quitting: an assertive and unapologetic no to everything in her life she finds draining, feels done with, one-sided, obligatory, without…
How to Create A Gauge Library
Have you ever wished you knew exactly what yarn to get in a rush order or trip to an LYS, that you could predict the…
Swatching & The Art of Project Management
You’ve got a sweater project on the needles. It has a round yoke and is knit top-down. Isn’t it great that you can try it…
Craft Time Management with SOS Moderator: Robyn Gibbons
Mom. Wife. Puppy owner. Paralegal. School of SweetGeorgia Moderator. SweetGeorgia Writer. Board Member. Homeowner. Type A personality. Multicraftual Maker. Master at Craft Time Management. I…
Motivation & the Art of Project Management
I was looking for knitting needles—my 3.75 mm Chiagoo 80 cm circulars to be exact. They were around here somewhere. I just finished a spinning…
Featured Student: Helen Mawdsley
"When will I stop learning more? Stop acquiring more crafts? Slow down all the making I do?" If you've thought "never" to all the above (which is grea…