About sweaterequity
“The sweater you want for the body you have”
Sweaterequity offers tutorials, patterns, interesting content, and community building around equitable knitwear for all.
We are passionate about handmade sweaters, accessible design, and social justice.
We believe all bodies are good bodies.
We believe you are enough.
We believe that if you’re going to put the time —and the sweat equity! —into making a sweater by hand, it’s worth making a bespoke garment that fits your body just as it is at this moment.
We believe in the transformational power of slow fashion.
We believe that craft is art.
And we believe that no one should be left behind or left out of the joy that comes from making and wearing a sweater you love.
About Ruth
Ruth Homrighaus’s first knitting project was a sweater, and sweaters remain her favorite thing to make, design, and think about. She launched a blog in the early 2000s called Ruthless Knitting, from which she published a handful of patterns, including the popular Sheldon — a stuffed turtle with a removable shell — and a reprint of the beloved Bernat Santa Claus Stocking.
Writing as Ruthie Knox and Robin York, Ruth has published over a dozen romance novels. She has a doctoral degree in British history based on her research on Margaret Waters, who was hanged in 1870 for murdering an infant (but didn’t do it).
When she’s not knitting, writing, or editing, Ruth parents two preteens, two miniature dachshunds, four hermit crabs, a fish, and two snails with her wife, with whom she also runs a co-founded publishing house, Brain Mill Press. She can frequently be found peering into her daughter’s hermit crab tank to see what they’re doing now.
Ruth is particularly fond of rough, toothy wool; color and texture patterns; and connections between knitting and history.