Last year, someone I know suffered a miscarriage. She had been nine weeks along. She hadn’t told anyone about the pregnancy, so she didn’t tell anyone about the miscarriage for several days. When she did finally tell her story, this was how she said she felt – lost, adrift, with the storm all around her and no shelter or safe port in sight.

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Yarn: Tosh Merino Light by Madelinetosh (100% merino, 420 yards), one skein

Yarn: Alchemy: Yarns of Transformation Kozmos (31% cotton, 30% silk, 26% mohair, 13% wool, 119 yards), one skein.

Hua Mulan is the protagonist in a poem from ancient China known as “The Ballad of Mulan.” It tells the story of a young woman who takes her father’s place in the army. She fights alongside the other men for twelve years. When the war is over, Mulan turns down an official post and returns home, whereupon her comrades in arms are shocked to disco...

Clara is a mystery shawl, inspired by Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker. Individual motifs within the shawl tell the journey the heroine takes throughout the ballet. It is a mock-Faroese, worked from the top down.

Sometimes, a wildly variegated skein of sock yarn calls out to you, but once you buy it, you have no idea what to do with it. This happened to me once when I saw a skein dyed black and bright orange. The lifelong baseball fan in me immediately squealed, “Oriole colors!” and instantly, I knew I had to have it. So I bought it and took it home and...

Yarn: Aussi Soxxi by Oasis Yarn (merino, nylon, 400 yards), one skein

Jill Pole is the heroine from C.S. Lewis’ novel The Silver Chair. She is a British school girl who happens to find her way into Narnia with her friend Eustace and is given the task of finding and rescuing Rillian, the lost crown prince of Narnia. She then returns with Eustace in The Last Battle in order to help save Narnia from a false Aslan an...

I’m the type of person who obsesses over awesome knitwear she sees in movies. This sweater in particular was inspired by the cabled cardi worn by Maria Bello in the movie The Jane Austen Book Club during the scenes in which the group is discussing Mansfield Park.

In tribute to Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos of Crete, I have attempted to recreate a labyrinth here. Everything from the stair-step stitch to the twisting Moebius brings to mind a wandering path in which one could easily become lost.