I am celebrating a project completion. I was on the phone with Holly Chayes, who does admin things for me, and she suggested that we take a moment to celebrate the completion of the Menu of Techniques. We’ve been working on this for several years. Most of the delay is my fault, because I have…
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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…
Cable Techniques Updated
I have updated one—sorry, just one—of my cable techniques pages. However, it is massive and now the others should be easy to accomplish. The new, updated technique is 1/2 Cable and 1/2 Crossed Stitches. There are some drawings to help you follow along. Why Update Cable Techniques? Well, for one I’ve got a pattern coming out…
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…
Tips and Techniques for Meeting Knitting Goals
I thought tips and techniques to get you to your 2017 knitting goals was in order today. I’ve got a lot of content available to you and anyone else, so here are some things I’ve written that you might be able to use now. Work in Ends (weave in ends). If you’ve been knitting,…
Techniques Needed for Medallion Shrug Swatch
Most knitters assume we know the techniques needed for what we want to knit. We do until we do something different from our usual knitting. I seem to specialize in techniques–but even I keep finding new techniques needed for things I want to knit. It is often as I embark on something that I find…
Double Decreases and Increases Distort Fabric
Double decreases and increases and how they distort fabric sounds pretty ominous, doesn’t it? These decreases and increases are often used in knitting for texture and surface interest. They are used to create the undulations in lace, and they can do other wonderful shaping things as well. I’ve been working on a Eventide, a sweater…
Searches for Techniques & Information
I can see the searches for techniques and information made on my website–but not in real time, so I can’t help with actual searches. I thought it would be fun to do a post on technique and information searches I’ve noticed in the past month. Information Searches vs Technique Searches Information searches are less likely to yield quality results…
Changing Course Toward Techniques
I’m changing course away from sizing adjustments, to talking about specific techniques. Before I get started on that though, I want to introduce you to my techniques database. Knitter, please meet the Jill Wolcott Knits® Techniques Library. I’m in the process of putting together a web page to make accessing this really easy, but it…
Preparations: TNNA Fashion Show
Today I do the preparations for the TNNA Fashion Show. No time for doing blog posts until I head home on Monday, so be sure to enjoy the post about Elaine Vandiver and Old Homestead Alpacas or catch up on other things. This was the most fun drawing I did this week. As I was afraid…
Returning to Favorite Techniques
I find myself repeatedly returning to favorite techniques. I am more than happy to expand to new things, such as German short rows, Judy’s Magic cast on, JSSBO, or other things I discover in my travels through knitting, but underlying technique methods–these are things that fascinate me. We’re polishing up my techniques database, so it…
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…
