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Cat Bordhi was one of the most creative people we’ve ever known, and one of the most generous. Many people know her creativity

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Those of you that know Myra Wood know that she’s exceptional in oh so many ways: Her creativity. Her skill in creating free-form works of art in knitting, crochet, and beading. Her exquisite co...

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I try not to get too smarmy in this blog, but this time it’s for a good cause. Today through March 13, Craftsy is celebrating National Craft Month in a novel way: anyone who signs up for a clas...

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Those of you that follow me on Facebook know that I have a thing for swatching. I even went through a phase of regularly posting swatch photos. . That phase has kind of fizzled out, but I’m sti...

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Ask anyone who’s been teaching knitting at the “big” events for a couple years (or anyone who’s done a fair bit of designing, I suppose), and they’ll tell you they regularly get questio...

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One of the things I’ve always wanted Stitch-Maps.com to be able to do is highlight the spaces between stitch columns. Or, to put it another way, to break a stitch pattern into its constituent p...

http://jcbriar.com/2015/04/19/cogitating/

You know how I’ve said that I drew stitch maps by hand, long before developing Stitch-Maps.com? Well, I found a little proof today. And it was a little surreal. While cleaning out some dusty co...

http://jcbriar.com/2015/03/24/a-little-surreal/

Check out the latest addition to my knitting bookshelves: It’s Knitting Fresh Brioche by Nancy Marchant, and it’s fabulous. The book is all about two-color brioche rib. You’d think that kin...

http://jcbriar.com/2015/03/05/knitting-fresh-brioche/

Let’s say you want to design a shawl composed of lace wedges. You have a lace pattern in mind, and you want each wedge to grow by two stitches on each right-side row. How do you get that lace p...

http://jcbriar.com/2015/02/26/filling-in-the-blanks/

Yesterday, while scoping out the knitting shelves at a local bookstore, I found a gently used copy of Martha Waterman’s Traditional Knitted Lace Shawls. Since I’m in the middle of updating my...

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