Saturday, January 30, 2016

Back to leverage

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Ultimately, knitting needles are levers for moving loops of yarn. For hand held needles such as circular needles or DPN, the thumb is usua...
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Friday, January 29, 2016

Female knitters bragging like men

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I suggest an easier way to knit, and these knitters respond by bragging about how how strong their hands are. That is a silly brag. One o...
Monday, January 25, 2016

Fairy Tales

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Phylogenetic analyses suggests fairy tales are much older than thought Ancient population expansions and dispersals often leave endur...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Lion Brand Fisherman's Wool

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The warmest object that I have ever knit, is from the Old Lions Brand Fisherman's Wool. Then they moved to production to China, and I...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Dear John,

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The modern hand knitting community is dominated by folks who knit for fun. For many years, the fun knitters have rudely pushing aside the f...
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Size 12 or 13 needles

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The first pattern in Gladys Thompson is A Channel Islands' Guernsey. The pattern was provided to GT by de Cararte and le Patourel of ...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016

How fast?

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I getting asked, "How fast can you knit?" Knit what kind of yarn?  What grist of  yarn?  On what size needles? In what pattern?...
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Friday, January 15, 2016

Evidence

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If we want medicine to be evidence-based, what should we think when the evidence doesn't agree? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

Koolaid

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I have been knitting, and had a pile of stuff around my knitting chair. I put excess stuff away, and there remained 6 WIP. One is a Guern...
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A revised taxonomy of hand knitting

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An outline of Hand Knitting to be expanded and extended, this is a post in progress. Hand knitting is a process where an array of lo...
Saturday, January 09, 2016

Thinner needles

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When I started using long steel needles some 12 years ago, I thought they would last forever. When new, my US1 needles were 2.38 mm in di...
Monday, January 04, 2016

Seam Stitches

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There are old stories of knitting in the round using only 3 needles. This is not done much any more.  Mary Thomas brings it up but does d...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Craftsmen

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I use the term "craftsmen" and "craftsman" as gender neutral nouns denoting a person that has spent years learning and ...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Professional spinners

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14 Incredible Archaeological Discoveries Made In 2015 see  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/archaeological-finds-2015_5678360be4b0b958...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

The Gansey World

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Sir Walter Raleigh used the term "gansey knit" in a letter to a Polish Princess to refer to finely knit hose. Gladys Thompson use...
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

I am the Boss.

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I do not let the fuzz from a a sheep tell me how to spin.  However, a number of spinners say that they sit down to a pile of fiber and let ...
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Are you holy?

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Some holy orders live in white wool. Others dye.
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Rooting around at the bottom of the Rabbit Hole

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At the end of the last episode, I was left wanting 4-ply, worsted spun, 2,500 ypp gansey yarn. This morning, I rooted around in the stash...