New issue of Knitty is up, and my technical advice column is all about Blocking. I aim to answer a few FAQs, bust a few myths, and provide some easy solutions. knitty.com/ISSUEss26/FE... 🧶

Today on Modern Daily Knitting: Ten Tips to Improve Your Garment Knitting.... www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/te... 🧶

Since it came up again, here is my advice to anyone who wants to knit socks but finds them intimidating: Start with baby socks, ideally DK or worsted-weight. They are quick and easy, and they will give you a sense of How Socks Work that translates fully to grown-up sizes.

This is part of that "for better or worse" thing, yeah?

Toronto! Go outside! But also prepare the towels for wiping off your very muddy dog.

Coming next Tuesday March 10th, 7-9pm eastern time - an online class all about Blocking & Fibre Care. Register here: aroundthetableyarns.com/blocking-and... 🧶

I have never satisfactorily answered the question about why two of my all-time fave comfort watches involve the Soviets. (RED OCTOBER being the other of course.)

And by 'infrastructure', you mean 'will to live' and 'already fraying mental health', yeah?

Dementia runs in my family. If I hadn't already had the vaccine I would be banging on the door of my local pharmacy this morning.

oh look it snowed

Pickle. A VERY GOOD GIRL.

Give to us our dumb tech, our software that doesn't try to do things for us, our fridges that are nothing but fridges, our cars with keys to turn, our physical buttons, give us disconnection, give us agency, give us our choice

Art is so very wonderful and very weird. Just finished reading a (smutty) fan fiction about a TV show that blew me away in the way it expressed grief and loss... I think it has unlocked something for me about processing the grief of the past few years.

Are humans permitted to compete?

For my own reference, as well as everyone else's. This is perfect.

The annual debate: Nigella or Delia, for the pancake recipe?

I’ve seen the critique that making these hats isn’t “doing anything” but I’d say raising 3/4s of a million for their local food shelf and rent assistance org seems like doing a lot.

Today's attempt to get very nerdy about publishing in under 2 minutes is about the oft overlooked copyright page, and it's about when a book goes into a 2nd (or 3rd) printing (*cough* Math for Knitters @kateatherley.bsky.social). youtube.com/shorts/_4Vno...

Heeeeeeeeeey.... use the code WINTER20 to get 20% off classes.

Nothing dooms an editing project more than the phrase: "I'm confident we have caught everything at this point"

This winter is testing me. The good news is that I don't have to travel to teach & you don't have to travel to take knitting classes. Feb 20th & 21st join me at Vogue Live online... www.vogueknittinglive.com 🧶

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I am genuinely embarrassed for this man.

Introducing the first book we ever printed: @kateatherley.bsky.social's CUSTOM-FIT HATS! It's a unique and infinitely customizable recipe for knitting hats in any yarn, at any gauge, for any head size. Learn more about it and find buy buttons at ninetenpublications.ca/books/custom...!

For a Monday in January, the Swedish mitten museum digitaltmuseum.se/search?descn... You're welcome.

I have been known to refer to Godzilla as @normwilner.bsky.social's "scaly friend"

Next up as we introduce each of our books: MATH FOR KNITTERS, by @kateatherley.bsky.social. It's a bestseller both in the it-made-the-Globe-bestseller-list way and also because it is, far and away, our best selling book to date ❤️

We have a water glass with the Letterkenny logo on it. I've always avoided using that one when I'm teaching online classes, it seemed a bit silly. However, I think it's suddenly become my favourite. #iykyk

I don't know, I just don't feel like it should be this easy to dismantle a country

These look fantastic!

I don't mean to make anyone worry, but my trifle was under-custarded.

This is what passed for fun in 1970s Britain apparently. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_pig

Lemon Pigs. Lady Hollyhock and her friends. 1906. archive.org/details/lady...

A last holiday treat for me: Knit Mitts by the incredible @kateatherley.bsky.social - I can't wait to start some mittens in the new year! The multiple pages of stitch counts for various sizes and gauges makes the book worth the money even before you get to the patterns!

RIP 2025 2025-2025

PSA: You don’t owe anyone an explanation about the health reasons why you are wearing a mask. Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.

Forever and always.

He's wrong. Salt and malt vinegar.

I like coming in at the end of a cycle to tell people what's what, so here's my list of the best movies of 2025 at SHINY THINGS.

This is good advice.

Toronto friends: looking for a recommendation for a really good egg roll, ideally downtown east/east-end. No, not spring rolls. Egg rolls. They are surprisingly hard to find these days, other than mall food courts apparently. Ideas gratefully received! Thank you!

It's time. #NoCheesesForUsMeeces

Is it even Christmas if you haven't a text from a friend who is worried that the cookies they decorated for this evening's gathering "look deranged"

Kate will never admit RED OCTOBER is her favorite movie, but then things like this happen.

... and now we have to watch THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER again. That movie works like the Tom Holland Umbrella video in this house. Any mention of it instantly means a rewatch is required.

Someone is being a jerk and it's making me mad.

Not knowing if it's recycling week because I recycled this year's calendar when next year's arrived...

Ten words would fit perfectly on a hoodie, I think...