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keywords: description:Knitting yarn and needle reviews, sock and lace tutorials, and knitting events calendar. Written by Clara Parkes since 2000.In American yarn, few names evoke as much history as "Germantown." While there hasn't been a Germantown yarn in years,
27 December 2019 Biches Bûches Le Cashmere LambswoolIf there's one thing I love more than a delicate, crunchy woolen-spun wool, it's the idea of a delicate, crunchy
23 September 2019 Millpost MerinoAlready the driest continent on earth, Australia is in the grips of a severe drought that many farmers claim is
16 May 2019 Indian Lake Artisans Hexagonal Knitting NeedlesFor anyone who loves writing by hand, or who has fond, easy memories of writing with a plain old No.
07 December 2017 Knitting Comfortably: The Ergonomics of Handknitting by Carson DemersImagine being told by your doctor that you can no longer knit. What sounds like a horror story is entirely
13 October 2017 Akerworks Swatch GaugeSwatching and gauge are the two least-sexy topics in knitting—and yet they are also the most vital. We swatch to
15 May 2017 The Swatchers ManifestoIn defense of swatching as a practical, spiritual, and deeply creative knitting enterprise all its own - with free patterns
16 February 2017 When Stash Attacks: Creative Techniques for Storing YarnIs your stash piling up? Here are some, um, "creative" techniques for getting every last ounce of storage space out
14 February 2017 The Sock-Knitters Companion: How to Knit SocksThe day I completed my first sock was a day of liberation. For years I'd been mystified by socks, never
20 June 2016 Inside the Knitters Book of SocksSocks buffer us from life's hard edges. Whether knit by hand or produced by machine, socks serve as a good
06 September 2011 whats your fancy? play with the latest yarns learn about tools travel to festivals and events explore helpful tutorials enjoy free patterns see what books were reading Now discussing on Instagramclaraparkes
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OpenGreetings, esteemed colleagues. May I present to you, in all its glory, 4:32pm.
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OpenThe last of the milkweed, waiting for the right puff of wind to carry the seeds to their new home.
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Open In the spring of 2016, I discovered a cool new wool shoe online. I ordered a pair, fell in love, and immediately wrote about them in Knitter’s Review. It turns out, this was something like @allbirds second week of operation. Still a small startup, they noticed the sales spike, traced it to me, and wrote me the loveliest email.
Fast-forward a few months, I got to visit them in their first San Francisco office. I met Tim and Joey and Julie and Lucy, all lovely humans. We had sandwiches and they showed me swatches of other fabrics they were looking at, and we talked wool, and it was heaven.
Whelp, today these kids’ little startup launched on the NASDAQ under ‘BIRD,’ with the first trade valuing the company at around $3.04 billion. Not that anyone’s counting.
While they’ve moved well beyond being only “that wool shoe company,” wool is still a core part of their product offerings. The number of people who’ve woken up to wool thanks to Allbirds is almost incalculable.
I realize I’m like the totally obscure elementary school teacher bragging about having had one student, for half a semester, who went on to win a Pulitzer, but so be it. This is a bonkers day, and I’m proud of them.
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ViewOct 23
OpenIt’s getting to be my favorite time of year, when the bugs are (mostly) gone and you can sit outside by a fire long after dark without turning into a popsicle. It took not one, not two, but three stray embers burning holes straight through her fleece for a Certain Someone to agree that wool may be a wiser choice for campfire attire. On the lap, a blanket from @twig_home that I’ve had for years. Feet kept cozy and not aflame by @giesswein_. And on top, the @wuru_wool Merino zip-up that I wrote about this week on The Wool Channel. (The chair I’m sitting on, however, is just begging to melt. Baby steps, right?)
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OpenI’m sitting out Rhinebeck and all the peripheral festivities this weekend. I didn’t expect it to feel as weird and poignant as it does, mostly because that’s where I’ve launched all but one of my books. The place holds a ton of memories. To make up for not being there, I’ve decided to place a cup of cider 100 yards away and spend two hours inching up to it. Oh, and I’ve recorded a Rhinebeck storytime that you can listen to over at The Wool Channel. (Link in profile.)
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OpenI hadn’t planned on going wading this evening, but if you arrive at the beach and it’s high tide and THIS is what greets you…it’d be rude not to accept the invitation. There was even a tiny cloud iridescence. Well played, Mother Nature.
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