by sweaterequity@gmail.com | Dec 31, 2025 | art, process, yarn
The Gift of Stash One of the great things about being married to my wife (10/10 would recommend) is that she unreservedly supports every aspect of my creative life. Recently, I told her that I wanted to reorganize all of my stashed yarn, which I keep in plastic totes...
by sweaterequity@gmail.com | Dec 14, 2025 | batwing, process, sweater design
Batwing! Batwing 101 My lovely friend Marian visited us recently for moral support. She was having a hard time, so I offered to make her a sweater. “You don’t have to make me a pity sweater,” she told me, but once we got talking about what kinds of...
by sweaterequity@gmail.com | Dec 10, 2020 | art, gauge, process, raglan, sweater design, top-down
On Gauge and the Mirage of Perfection In knitting, as in life, perfection is an illusion. It’s funny, really. We are awkwardly configured blobs of limb-studded flesh wrapped around articulated skeletons with hundreds of individual bones. Our bodies are shaped by our...