Some fancy socks for all your dancing-around-the-house needs. This is less a line-by-line pattern and more of a recipe. It assumes some sock knitting experience, but if you are tenacious and willing to look up a few techniques, I see no reason why a beginner couldn’t

Love Letter started when a new LYS opened up in my town and I had to go check them out. The end result is a shallow, gently curved triangular shawlette. It is simple enough for a beginner to tackle, and is easily adapted to suit the maker’s needs. Prefer different increases? Switch them out for your favorites. Want larger or smaller stripes, or...

In college I began writing a screenplay about the zombie apocalypse, as you do. Isobel is the main character, a young woman who is at once angry, grieving, and deeply concerned with right and wrong. I have always had a very clear picture of her in my mind, and tried to capture what I see with this shawl: someone who starts out rather straight f...

Violinist David Garrett’s cover of Viva La Vida is the kind of song you cannot be sad while listening to. The music video for it is also the most Lisa Frank thing I have ever seen in my life (apart from the backpack I had in kindergarten), and I mean that as a sincere compliment. After listening to it an embarrassing amount of times, I decided ...