Dear Cynthia, Let the finishing begin. Here are three sets of sweater components, that is, three sweater bodies, and six sweater sleeves. If...

Dear Laura: Well, I think I've decompressed from the wildness of the holiday weekend. All too quickly, food was prepared, consumed and c...

Dear Cynthia, Many years ago, I purchased a book called "The Tightwad Gazette", by Amy Dacyczyn. Few things I've read since th...

Introducing the Lillian Bag, a pattern for making a felted bag in two styles. One version utilizes purchased handles; the other has a should...

Dear Laura: I am still holding firm in my resolve. Instead of the usual always-expanding-list-of-items-that-I-plan-to-knit-for-Christmas bat...

Dear Cynthia, I can totally relate to your experience of continuing to knit even though you have a queasy feeling that things are just not r...

Dear Laura: Greetings from Indiana! Where I've lived...all of my life!! (I followed back some comments, and found some curiosity about w...

Dear Cynthia, Love, love, love the cow sling! You probably have told me, but if so, I can't recall (I've been told that having child...

Dear Laura: I finally opened my Winter issue of Interweave KNITS . Sometimes the knitting gets in the way of the knitting magazine! Before ...

Dear Cynthia, Last Friday, my six year old had the day off from school. And so, the boys and I drove to Milwaukee to meet up with Grandma an...

Dear Laura: Ok, it's a good thing that I'm not the one trying to knit 3 sweaters in 3 months! Yikes, I have SO not been knitting lat...

Dear Cynthia, I love watching knitted colorwork patterns come to life. The little dots and x's on the chart don't even come close t...

Dear Cynthia, Well, the election is over, and I am so glad that I no longer will have to arrive home to see the light blinking on my answeri...

Dear Cynthia, No post about the three sweater challenge today. It's the weekend, and with dh home, it means no progress on Hardangervidd...

Dear Cynthia, First, Happy Halloween. It's not my favorite "holiday", if I even go so far as to call it that, but I decided th...

Dear Laura: The wonderful news that the Cardinals won the World Series!!! The bad news is that baseball is over now.....I miss it - I got lo...

Dear Cynthia, A graduate student at the UW has put together an exhibit highlighting Elizabeth Zimmermann , and what she has brought to moder...

Dear Laura: Well, I think I'm getting organized enough for a post. I haven't been slow to post because of lack of material - just la...

Dear Cynthia, My knitting was interupted again to bring to life this doggy costume for my six year old. He will be wearing it this Saturday...

Dear Cynthia, Ever since I sent away to college, I have been plagued by a mysterious gas in my clothes closet. It really isn't detectabl...