Fringe Association » Karen Templer

Hi again — I hope you’ve been well! I’ve got two things to update you on: 1. THE TIP JARIt is indescribably rewarding that thousands of people per week continue to visit and make use of th...

https://ktslowcloset.com/2024/04/16/two-newish-things/

What a minute it’s been. When I put this blog on hiatus in January 2020, I could never have imagined all that was about to happen in the world, and I hope you’ve fared as well as possible thr...

https://ktslowcloset.com/2022/11/17/ch-ch-ch-ch-changes/

I’m writing this with a conflicted heart, but I’m here today to let you know that I’m putting the blog on hiatus. Short-term? Long-term? I honestly don’t know. I just know I’ve been wri...

https://ktslowcloset.com/2020/01/03/gone-makin/

Any year that includes that magical striped dress up there is a good sewing year, in my book. But I think this was easily my most successful — if most myopic — year as a sewer. I sewed 12 th...

https://ktslowcloset.com/2019/12/31/2018-my-sewing-year-in-review-2/

There’s always something surprising to me whenever I look back through what I’ve made in a given year. This year it’s the fact that I made things! For some reason, I don’t feel like I did...

https://ktslowcloset.com/2019/12/30/2019-my-knitting-year-in-review/

I’m awed every single year when I scroll back through New Favorites to see how many fantastic patterns I’ve posted here, knowing they’re still only a fraction of everything that caught my e...

https://ktslowcloset.com/2019/12/27/favorite-new-favorites-of-2019/

Hi, friends — just a quick note today to let you know there’s a Warehouse Sale happening over at Fringe Supply Co.! Meaning clearance prices on seconds and odds and ends, while they last. Th...

https://ktslowcloset.com/2019/12/26/warehouse-sale/

I may not be the most festive person in the world, but what I do love about this stretch around the holidays is the way the world slows down while we collectively shift our focus for a minute (a ...

https://ktslowcloset.com/2019/12/23/merry-elsewheres/

I’ll be honest and tell you I debated whether to post here about this precious little cardigan, but the point of this blog for me has always been a shared connection with you: fellow knitters o...

https://ktslowcloset.com/2019/12/19/q-for-you-whats-your-strongest-knitting-bond/

Now me, I love cables and I love a chart. I’m a visual person and I also think cable knitting is a blast, so my idea of a dream pattern is a simple cable chart I can glance at and memorize, the...

https://ktslowcloset.com/2019/12/17/new-favorites-cables-for-the-cable-averse/