What is it exactly about a tangled mass of yarn that makes everyone itch to get their hands on it and start untangling?
Well, maybe not everyone.  Usually, the person whose yarn it is has had it up to wherever with the tangles.
But bring the sorry mess into a yarn shop, and see what happens!  For those of us [...]

A little while ago, y’all learned not to ask me a certain question:
 

What should I knit?

And since I didn’t explain in that post what the second-question-I-won’t-answer was, now nobody will talk to me.  So, I guess I’d better clear this up today.
The second question I get asked by knitters, which I will not answer, is
[knitter [...]

There are two knitting questions that I get asked on a regular basis which I will not answer.  Just don’t even try.
Not that I don’t know the answer, or I don’t have an opinion.  It’s just that I have found that giving an answer usually leads me into more trouble.
Question #1:

What should I knit?

I used to actually [...]

This weekend, I taught a class on "Fixing Mistakes," and was gratified to see several new-ish and/or returning knitters becoming much more confident about their knitting abilities.  I truly find that rewarding – as you may have gathered, knitting has been a passion of mine for over 20 years, and I love to expand other knitters’ horizons.
These knitters had [...]