Crafting

3 changes to make for more inclusive test knits

I’ve talked previously about designer pay, and how designers need to be paid more for there to be a chance for marginalized folks to enter and stay in the industry. This remains true in 2022, and ...

Why these yarns for the Coloring Book Tee?

One of the things I see a lot in our knitting community online is anxiety over ethical purchases. We put ourselves through “no buys” with mindsets borrowed from diet culture, periods of compulsive...

Don't give up on beauty in times of darkness.

My friends, don’t give up on beauty in times of darkness. Yes, rage into the night. Yes, protest the injustice in the world. Yes, perform civil disobedience, if that is something within your ab...

Being bad at capitalism from a business perspective.

When I first started my knitting design business, it was to support my friend Jen at 626 Yarn and her Thai Iced Tea gradient sock set. We ended up raising funds to donate towards organizations tha...

Making better sock choices: How I think about yarn.

Now that we've talked about all the ways to evaluate a yarn for sustainability reasons and for our personal values, why we shouldn't be horrible to other people who make different choices than we d...

6 ways to measure environmental impact by fiber.

Disclaimer: If you're new here, don't forget to read the previous posts in this series for context. We don't do yarn snobbery here so please do not take any information from my work to go and be a...

How to make the Mariner Mod for the Coloring Book Raglan

By popular request, here's a quick little notes sheet for how I made my Nutiden mariner version of the Coloring Book Raglan pattern. Sizing and Yardage I am using Nutiden yarn Barighet and Ra...

3 tell-tale signs a knitting magazine is really diverse.

Is there something we can do that would help us assess the work that is going on to the magazine to ensure that it aligns with our values? The answer is, definitively, yes. As a former section ed...

Choosing fibers that align with your values AND project

processes, but not life cycle assessments to show how a sustainable knitting life really would look like. This is a capitalist viewpoint and many times conversations about sustainability are steepe...