Monday morning on feedly I saw this post: Mended: black Uniqlo jeans mended with Sashiko stitching with a link to instagram for other sashiko
I’m still trying to track down the quote I read in a fashion book years ago defining “The woman on the Street.” I heard this
Just like I loved chemistry, the smallest framework you could get without falling too far into quantum mechanics, I love stitch patterns. I think I
I became intrigued by the Miniature Herringbone Stitch during Christmas of 1990. I’d never seen it in a magazine pattern but I was sure that
I was 15. Mom and I had bought too much acrylic worsted yarn, it was tricky to substitute for the ribbon yarn the pattern called
My Dad often encouraged me in the middle of a conversation about how something I had done was unacceptable. I was boiling the sausages before
I didn’t actually set out to make friends; but when I made her daughter a hat, it was as if I’d planned a campaign. My
Now that I’m incapable of knitting as many gifts as I can dream up, I do a lot of spying before pulling out needles or
Back when I had healthy carpal tunnels and incredible optimism, I began a project of making a sweater for each of my cousins, and the
I was already cold, and it was still summer in 1999. No sweaters fit due to my post partum body and extended nursing. I had