Brian Sawyer

For reasons I’d rather not get into at the moment, I’ve found myself with significantly more free time on my hands of late. This has allowed me to spend more quality time with my family and, finally, get back to my current knitting work in progress.
I just started knitting again in earnest a couple days ago, [...]

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It’s been a while since I’ve been over to Instructables site, but I just surfed over there today to find my How to Cast On instructable (also available here) featured in the main banner:

That’s all. I just felt the need to report on the most self-indulgent fun I’ve had at that site since another one [...]

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Because I tend to have little free time to crank out knitted garments, I choose each new project carefully, largely as a means to learn a completely new technique, as well as the obvious interest in a nice piece that someone close to me will enjoy and actually wear. Last summer, after finishing my first [...]

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When I started my current job as a craft editor, I was particularly excited to get involved in my first knitting book. That book, already in the late stages of production at the time, turned out to be Sensual Knits, by Yahaira Ferreira. Technically, it’s a January 2008 release, but it’s actually available now at [...]

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Today, I finally got my invitation to join Ravelry and started to take it for a spin. Though I’ve noticed a few glitches (to be expected of any beta service), I love what I’ve seen so far. It’s like your favorite blogging application, Flickr, and LibraryThing, all rolled up together (in fact, the creators were [...]

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I learned to knit about 14 years ago, on a scarf that I’ve kept since then for purely sentimental reasons. The piece was never a thing of beauty and has therefore seldom been warn, but even so, it’s been used enough to add some wear to its already pitiful state.
I’ve felt guilty lately about using [...]

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Here’s my final status report (see my gauge swatch, my first finished sleeve, and complete WIP photos) on the Jade Pullover I’ve been working on from Elsebeth Lavold’s Designer’s Choice Book Two: The Sentimental Journey Collection.
At last, I picked up and knit the collar:

… and put it all together:

I’m pretty happy with how it [...]

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It’s been a while since my last update on my ongoing WIP, because I’ve been too busy to get around to both the knitting and the blogging, but a recent flurry of travel by air and rail (and a new knitting class that started last night, a great father’s day gift) has given me some [...]

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After posting my How to Cast On tutorial, a few people asked for a similar demonstration of binding off, another of those basic techniques that are sometimes hard to learn from books or remember from one project to the next once you’ve actually mastered them. I thought I’d wait until I had a project ready [...]

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