Threads of Life: A Journey in FiberArtistry

When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Green Tea Lemonade With Mint.
Warning: Heavy Sarcasm Ahead (Especially at Microsoft’s Expense)If you’re a hardcore Windows fan-girl, grab a helmet. Have you read The Internet is Made of Demons? Yeah… if that’s true, my computer is 100% possessed. This beast didn’t even start life as a “normal”...

Barbara G. Walker: The Woman Who Shaped My Knitting and Opened My Mind
For the longest time, Barbara G. Walker was simply the brilliant mind behind my sweater-knitting bible, Knitting from the Top Down—the book that changed everything for me when it came to seamless garment construction. If you’ve ever knit a sweater without the dreaded...

When Politics Crash Knit Happens
Yesterday, near the end of Knit Happens Wednesday, just as I was wrapping up a lovely session of stitches and chatter, a conversation unfolded that rocked me to my core. Out of nowhere, this intelligent, confident Latino woman timidly drops: "I voted for Trump." Not...

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From the depths of my wild and wonderful menopausal mind, these are the untamed musings of Artemisnorth.