Both my sister and a college friend recently sent me copies of this Wall Street Journal article about knitting.
More specifically, it’s about "Sock Wars", where the idea is that everyone playing the game is an "assassin" and has an assigned  "target".  You are supposed to "assassinate" that person by knitting them a pair of socks, and then you send [...]

OK, here’s the ONE Xmas present I knitted this year - but it is darned cute. It’s a double-knitted teddy bear from the book “Knitter’s Stash”. The book’s been around a while, but I don’t actually own it (the library does, though!) so this is only the second thing I’ve knit out of it.
The teddy bear is actually [...]

OK, so these two stitches walk into a bar, and sit down.  The bartender tells them, "We don’t serve stitches in this bar.  Get out!"
They leave, and go around the corner, where one of the stitches says, "I’ve got an idea."  He unravels himself, untwists his ends a bit, and ties himself into a knot.
The [...]

Q. When is a picture NOT worth a thousand words?
 
A.  When it is a BFL (Big Fat Lie).  
One of my biggest knitting peeves is photography in knitting publications that is a deliberate misrepresentation of the article in question.  (A close second is "artsy" photography, at the expense of seeing what the garment actually looks like.)
The most [...]

According to the expiration date for the "special offer", I received this Comcast ad sometime in summer, 2003. I liked it so much I’ve kept it pinned to my studio wall ever since.
You have to admit, he’s a pretty advanced knitter!  Continental style, and he’s purling, yet.  Even more remarkably, it looks like he is wrapping the [...]

OK, so I’ve got most of the yarn – one color is on order – and I’m on gauge.
Most people jump in and start knitting here, but not me. As I’ve said, I’ve learned the hard way that too many projects are doomed to failure in the beginning stages. Besides, I usually end up making [...]