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The Never-Ending Project
If you’re imagining me sitting in a cozy armchair, blissfully knitting away for hours each day, I hate to break it to you: that’s not my reality.

Kim Weitkamp
3 min read


Shakespeare, Star Wars and Blocking.
To block or not to block? That is the question. I know that some of you seasoned makers are looking at that question and thinking about how ridiculous it sounds. Trust me...there are thousands of knitters and crocheters who ask themselves that very question at the end of every project. I am a lazy knitter. If you have watched our After Hours show or read any of the other posts I have written, we have more established that. In the early years of my knitting, I never blocked. W

Kim Weitkamp
2 min read


Journal Knitting
I've seen them, I've been intrigued by them, but I just couldn't bring myself to make one. People would proudly bring their temperature...

Kim Weitkamp
4 min read


Listen to the Bees
The summer I started grad school, I was thrilled to begin a new creative journey and the final chapter of my education. Neither my...

Laura Tabbut
4 min read


HOOP: There it is.
Tools. If there is one thing we've learned from all of the HGTV, Magnolia Home, Extreme Makeover, onslaught of "fix up something to be...

Kim Weitkamp
4 min read


What Your Hands Can Do
There’s a hashtag a mentor of mine uses on her Instagram (do I sound hip yet?) and I think about it almost daily…#RememberWhatYourHandsCanDo

Amber Mendenhall
5 min read


Permission to Dabble
“Did you make that, sweetie? It’s so pretty! Why, it looks store bought!” That was the standard that guided my artistic endeavors when I...

Megan Hicks
3 min read


Stick With One Thing
Do you know how hard it is to be a hyperactive grandmother? I have ADHD and even though my body has slowed down, my mind has not. Though...

Kim Weitkamp
3 min read
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