When faced with a soft, plush, scrumptious yarn, I decided it needed to be turned into slippers.

This amazingly soft yarn was just crying out to be a blanket, but I didn’t want to do something ordinary with it. So I played and sketched and experimented and swatched and ended up with this—a slightly crazy collection of blocks that are parallelograms instead of rectangles, chevrons that don’t quite want to be angled chevrons, but that don’t ...

In college, my best friend had a fabulous bag. It was part purse, part bookbag, and entirely wonderful. To be honest, I don’t actually remember that much about the bag itself. Was it leather or suede? Round or rectangular on the bottom? How big was it?

For years, I used a canvas satchel as my knitting bag and loved just about everything about it. It held a ton of yarn. It stayed open—wide open—while I was knitting. It had a flat bottom so it never fell over. It had handles that were just the right length, so that I could loop it onto my shoulder or carry it easily in my hand. But, it wasn’t t...

A Christmas tree hat, with beads for the ornaments … and a star on top!