BNW Blog

About yesterday’s post: The big shawl is probably going to go to one of my nieces, Sarah; I’m trying to make something really nice for each of them, to give on some future special day . . . I w...

Mondays just disappear for me. I teach four 2-hour classes between 10am and 8:30pm, which doesn’t seem like a lot, but I always feel really beat when I get home at night! I think it’s the “good” t...

And as for my hiatus from sweater knitting, it’s funny how at the end of last winter, when I had made about 6 sweaters, and maybe the same number the year before that, I thought we had more than e...

  Spotted while running: a carpet of brilliant yellow aconite against dead leaves, dead sticks, dead grass, and bare shrubbery. They look like they’re dancing! I finally saw a crocus in our own y...

  January presents a tough challenge—with holiday glitter a mere memory and not nearly time to tell ourselves that “spring is just around the corner”, we need something fresh to brighten the days a...

  For a project that I thought of as strictly catch as catch can, this sure got finished quickly. I mean, it’s not like I go around my coffee for hours every morning (or even one hour)—I've really ...

Back in the winter, when I published my Dock and Cabin cardigan pattern, my good friend Nancy said that she wanted a blanket pattern with all the same textures. Funny thing was, I already had it in...

When we originally scheduled the release of this pretty eyelet cardigan—Violet—we were thinking that March is the month when we begin seeing the tiny spring flowers. While a crocus or two has turn...

I am really happy with the blue shawl so far, too! It IS my own design; I made one last year in a smooth merino fingering yarn, gave it to my mom, and kept notes to write a pattern “later." (Show...