I knit in Halifax and work in a neighborhood stationery shop. I learned the basics from a friend and have since made enough sleeves to appreciate that a project can change its mind halfway through. A good notebook, a forgiving attitude and the willingness to unravel have helped me more than chasing a flawless record of completed garments.
Stitch & Skein collects notes on yarn, texture, fit and the decisions that make a piece comfortable enough to wear repeatedly. I like useful samples, clear observations and projects suited to an ordinary evening in a chair. I find it reassuring that making something can include taking part of it apart.
My yarn storage has improved over the years, although the word organized remains open to discussion. Away from knitting I enjoy harbor walks, handwritten letters and baking bread that produces enough crumbs to suggest the household has been properly occupied.
A dropped stitch exposes the path of yarn through a knitted fabric. Reading its live loop, loose bars and neighboring stitches reveals how to rebuild it, and when a simple hook repair is not enough.
A gauge swatch can widen in one direction and shorten in another after laundering. Measuring the finished fabric reveals what those small changes mean for fit, shaping and yarn choice.
The swatch looked harmless. A small knitted square, a few measurements and no ambition to become the main event. Then I compared it with the confident plan and discovered that the confident plan had been
