Knitting with Cotton
Cotton, in our tropical country, is like air…it is difficult to imagine life without it. Inspite of a zillion synthetic materials, and many other natural fibres around us, most of us feel comfortable ...
29 Jul 2020
Knits
20 Jul 2020
Double Magic…pure poetry
Double Magic....
That’s the name of my shawl
Woven by women who own sheep
Have children
Live in shelters
Made from mossy rocks
In tiny villages that dot
The Himalayan snow
Remote to everything
But po...
18 Jul 2020
The Women of Needlestosaymore…Meena Dosaad
The best chef of Ranikhet is married to her. They have a tall, smart teenager son who is on the journey to find his calling. Members of her large extended family periodically descend on her, when anyo...
05 Jul 2020
In Love with Circular Knitting Needles…
There is circular knitting, and then, there are circular needles.
While circular knitting can be done by 4 straight needles, ( DPNs), circular needles are great for straight knitting too.
If you hav...
22 Jun 2020
Cowl conversation
I was reborn a knitter when I started knitting long mufflers in Orissa. My job was all about travelling through the green countryside, 6 to 10 hours on an average day. I quickly ran out of options to ...
26 Apr 2020
Perfect ripping=perfect sweater
Knitting projects of mine tend to follow a predictable path. There is a grand beginning,full of magnificent ideas of how the end product will look—how fabulous and fantastic it will be, with complime...
09 Jun 2019
Finding a name
Five years ago, when the knitters were learning lace knitting by reading charts, we test knitted, re knitted and finally, perfected this lace shawl. Christened “Lace Shadows”, we have knitted it in ev...
10 May 2019
Hand knits…why do we need them?
Picture the Delhi Metro...women's compartment...cold January evening...solitary knitter in one corner. After spending the entire day explaining to learned people that abstinence usually does not work...
04 Feb 2019
February…for Banging out a Cardigan.
The worldwide knitting community has bonds of yarn ( of course), patterns, yarn festivals, Ravelry, and finally--the knitalongs or KALs in knitting language. There are sewalongs and crochetalongs, but...
29 Jan 2019
Many gurus…One garment
After Cheetah and Mili had sniffed and (almost) scratched this pullover to their liking, I took the blocked, folded and clean sweater to its rightful place in the sweaters drawer. This drawer has 9 ha...