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Your new favorite neck & shoulder knitting patterns.
The weather suddenly turns from sunburn-inducing to just slightly chilly and suddenly, it’s autumn! You might be feeling the urge to cast on something new and you’ll need something that works up quickly. It needs to add a good bit of warmth for those early autumn days, and transition flawlessly into winter. Here are a few of my best neck and shoulder knitting patterns recommendations to get you started. We’ve got shawl knitting patterns as well as scarves and dickeys! Will they become your favorite too? Dusk in…
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Why these yarns for the Coloring Book Tee?
One of the things I see a lot in our knitting community online is anxiety over ethical purchases. We put ourselves through “no buys” with mindsets borrowed from diet culture, periods of compulsive purchasing, and acquire stash that can often grow out of control. And while yarn purchasing is a matter that is deeply colored by financial privilege, location, and access, I think all of us could do with some deprogramming to unlearn that language of diet culture. And by the way, I really strongly believe that you…
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Being bad at capitalism from a business perspective.
When I first started my knitting design business, it was to support my friend Jen at 626 Yarn and her Thai Iced Tea gradient sock set. We ended up raising funds to donate towards organizations that supported Asians and Asian Americans, during a time of rising hate crime against us. To be honest, as new businesses it doesn’t make very much financial sense to donate huge chunks of income. And yet, we have continually made choices which in any reasonable capitalist society would be called “bad business.” At…
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6 ways to measure environmental impact by fiber.
Disclaimer: If you’re new here, don’t forget to read the previous posts in this series for context. We don’t do yarn snobbery here so please do not take any information from my work to go and be a rude jerk to other people. Everyone here is a beloved member of this community and this work is for those who are able to financially, medically, and mentally have the space to try to make these choices in a more targeted way. Last time, I wrote about how the relative…
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No more fear: your scariest swatching questions answered! (1/??)
Last week, I made a reel about reasons to love swatching, and put out a call in my Instagram Stories asking you what your biggest questions about swatching are. I answered what felt like a thousand questions about all your swatching concerns! I understand that for even seasoned knitters, swatching can be a stressful time if you don’t know what you’re looking for or it isn’t done extremely consistently. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Aimee Sher ✨ Knitting Design (@aimeeshermakes) I’ve compiled some of…
