Seeded Bath Set Test kicks off on July 15! This test is seasonally adjusted and uses cotton. This Seeded Bath Set test is opening early (ahead of launch on July 15) because I want to find knitters that are just right for this project. I am looking for some newer knitters along with all other…
Action charts
A Deeper Look. More to Love in Action Charts
There is more to love in Action Charts, but for some knitters they are just too different to comprehend at first glance. Last week I posted about Action Charts, but at over 800 words I felt I needed to continue in another post to give this topic the best explanation. Symbols and Why I Have…
Jumping Back In By Refreshing Ashland!
Refreshing Ashland has taken much longer than I anticipated. This is the story of everything for me (taking longer), but I want to take a moment to you what refreshing Ashland means for you! I think I’ve been making my patterns even-more fab-u-lous! The actual release date is September 15, 2018, but until then, the…
Refreshing News! New Patterns on the Horizon
Refreshing News from Jill Wolcott Knits! After a hiatus of a couple of months, I’m doing a blog, and releasing new patterns! Plus, I’m teaching a class on Yarnpreneur.com. If you’ve been following me, you know that I overthink almost everything. I decided to rework my pattern layout about two years ago, and we are…
Outreach, Reaching Out, & Building Community
Outreach, reaching out, and building community are hard things. It is easy to want to do them, but more difficult to know what to do, and even harder to implement. Outreach to Jill Wolcott Knits® I’m often surprised when I do some outreach at the response I get—and also that I don’t get. You just…
Getting Energized About . . .
Do you ever have that feeling of getting energized just by touching or seeing something you really love? This feeling often makes me move projects into active status even though I need to work on other things. Many of my projects get attention because they make me feel this way, but other things, which I…
May focus on Teaching
My May focus is on Teaching. I am prepping classes for TNNA in early June, doing the preliminary work to ready for my classes in Taos, creating a class on Skillshare, and teaching my FIDM classes. One of the things I love about teaching is that I always learn so much in the process, so my…
Seed Stitch Talk Moves to Charts
More Seed Stitch talk as I need to get out of my studio early today. If I were a better person I would have written this last week, but I didn’t, so I am dashing this off now! This is going to be about charting Seed Stitch. But let’s start with my first memories of Seed stitch,…
Garter Stitch: Loved or Maligned?
It seems that we run from garter stitch as soon as we can. Beginning knitters want to learn to purl, not because they want to purl, but because they consider garter stitch unacceptable—they want to do real knitting. They are, of course, referring to what in hand knitting we call stockinette or stocking stitch, and…
Adopting New Strategies
I started teaching summer quarter yesterday. I’ve redone assignments for one of my classes in an effort to adopt new strategies that better communicate the concepts I teach to students who are very different from me in experiences and how they interact with the world. I only adopted using a smart phone in December. Although…
Kickoff of BLC Knit Along
June 16 is the kickoff of the Beginner Lace Cardigan Knit Along (BLC Knit Along). The pattern is available free from Love of Knitting here. We have scheduled 12 weeks (plus a wrap-up week) of knitting, and have weekly prizes, a runner up prize, and a grand prize all lined up. More importantly–I think!–LindaLovesLace and…
