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• August 23, 2013

  A Spinner’s Guide to Colorwork Knitting

  I’m excited to announce my upcoming Interweave webinar! The webinar format is really interesting, and I have had a wonderfully creative time thinking about how to use this medium to its best advantage. The webinar experience goes like this: I create a powerpoint presentation chock-full of images and descriptions of how I spin the yarns…

• August 20, 2013

  Part Second: Where sheep watch the sea.

  This is the second of a three part story about my recent trip to Scotland, Shetland, and Norway. I’ve read a fair number of essays about a traveler’s first impressions of the Shetland Isles. Many of these begin, quite reasonably, with the surprise one experiences in suddenly popping out of a cloud in a tiny…

• July 14, 2013

  Part First: The traveller returneth.

  “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”  –Marcel Proust This is the first of three posts about my 2013 trip to Scotland, Shetland, and Norway. For me, one of life’s greatest joys is in revisiting corners of the world I have previously explored. This has always struck me…

• May 12, 2013

  Gifts of Springtime.

  The last few weeks of my life have been full of bouncing, baby lambs. Here are a few of my favourite pictures so far: