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The Stock(inette) Market: A Six Month Retrospective
Six months. Approximately 360 data collections. Approximately 9.5 million individual data points (seriously). Scores of shawls, fountains of Fair Isle, legions of lace, and three chickens in...
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Summer's End
My hands and wrists have been giving me some trouble recently (nothing major, promise!), so I took the weekend off of knitting, typing, and playing on my phone. Since those are the things that occupy...
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Overpacking
My pile of woolens for KnitEast is bigger than any other pile. Do you think I can manage some midday costume changes?(Pssst--that orange one on the left? Meet Windrow, a brioche cowl in Sunshine Yarns...
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The Stock(inette) Market: September 2nd-October 6th
As with the beginning of the school year, this month marks the the kickoff of the knitting calendar for the Northern Hemisphere. The second the first frost occurs, or the first whiff of woodsmoke is...
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The Stock(inette) Market: October 7th-November 3rd
We are well and truly into the knitter's favorite time of year here in the Northern Hemisphere (I write this currently swathed in cardigan and scarf, and am seriously contemplating fingerless mitts),...
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The Stock(inette) Market: November 4th to December 1st
Welcome to December--there's been snow on the ground (though it hasn't stuck here in Maine yet), there are Thanksgiving leftovers in the fridge, and gift knitting season is well underway. Let's take a...
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The Stock(inette) Market: December 2nd-December 29th
Welcome to the second-to-last day of 2013! It's been a great year for knitting, with an incredible number of publications, both industry and self-published. In fact, since I know you love stats as...
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Calm
I am hip deep in pattern prep for five different pieces, but stole some time away this morning to do a photoshoot out in the marshes near the coast. It's been snowing since yesterday morning, this...
View ArticleThe Stock(inette) Market: The Best Laid Plans. . .
Hi all! Just a quick note to let you know that I'm running behind schedule on the latest edition of the Stock(inette) Market. The last couple weeks have been a perfect storm of deadlines, work...
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So, I've always been obsessed with the Olympics. I'm not normally a super patriotic person, nor really a sports person (unless it's UMaine hockey--GO BLUE!) but the second the Olympics start, there's...
View ArticleFrost Fair
I know, I know, three posts in as many days, what have I done with the real Bristol? But now that the donation drive is taking off like a rocket (thanks to everyone participating and spreading the...
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Stock(inette) Market: December 29th-January 29th
Hello and happy February! Okay, not so much with the happy if you're as cold as I am, but the days are getting longer and there's hope (or maybe just the smell of Valentine's Day candy) in the air....
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First off, though I'm still collecting tallies, the knitting community deserves a MASSIVE, heartfelt, very teary thank you for their support during the Olympics donation drive. The number of people...
View ArticleA Final Thank You
So I thought I was overwhelmed and amazed by the knitting community before. And then the tallies started rolling in from designers. And I was floored all over again. You ready to hear...
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Stockinette Market: January 30th-February 28th
Welcome to the one year anniversary of the Stockinette Market! What a momentous year it's been in the knitting industry. I've always enjoyed tracking trends, but doing so with concrete data rather than...
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Stockinette Market: March 1st-March 31st
Ah, March. In like a lion, out like a lamb. Or, if you were in Maine, lion full-throttle all the way through. The same can be said of activities in the knitting industry: as I collected data for the...
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The Stockinette Market: April 1-April 30th
Helloooooooo, spring! Though today's been a bit on the rainy and windy side, there's no denying that the flowers are blooming full force, and the time for knitting out on the front porch with a tall...
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The Stockinette Market: May 1st-May 31st
Alert: as I type this, the window is open next to me. I repeat, THE WINDOW IS OPEN. The last few days here in Maine have been one constant internal monologue of "summersummersummersummersummer", and...
View ArticleA couple tutorials in brioche and fisherman's rib
So it's no secret that I'm a huge, huge fan of brioche and fisherman's rib. I've been working pretty obsessively with them over the last year or so, and the obsession doesn't show any real signs of...
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Stockinette Market: Summer 2014
Well hello there! It seems like it was just yesterday that I had the space heater trained on my feet at my desk, a hot mug of tea at my elbow as I wrote the previous Stockinette Market post (it was not...
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Stockinette Market: September 2014
Hello everyone! I've just returned from that landmark weekend of the knitter's season, Rhinebeck (aka New York Sheep and Wool). Though the weather was forecast to be high 60s on Saturday, both days...
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Stockinette Market: October 2014
Hello, knitters! As I write this, the sun is beginning to disappear at the ripe old time of 3:30 in the afternoon, I have the space heater trained on my feet, and there's a lot of what sounds...
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Stockinette Market: November 2014
Hello, knitters! It's that time of year--I can feel the heat rising off everyone's furiously clacking needles as C-Day draws closer. For a little bit of a break, let's take a look back at what...
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Ch-ch-ch-changes
studio keys.Well, hello there! It's been a bit quiet on the blogging end for me lately--this has been a hard winter here in Maine, and that, combined with a lot of projects in progress, has meant that...
View ArticleStockinette Market: Taking a Break
Hi, friends! First off, thank you all SO much for your kind words on my next steps in this industry. I am completely overwhelmed with your love and support, and am so excited to see where the next...
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