Dark Matter Knits podcast

My all-time-favorite knitting hero (perhaps yours, too?), Elizabeth Zimmermann, famously exhorted us to "Knit on, with confidence and hope, through all crises." I felt like I needed a little EZ Jiminy Cricket on my shoul

Ever get that itch to wander, to try something new? Or are you the more the type to settle in to the comforts of the familiar? Or maybe you feel a tug of war inside between these two competing tendencies? In today's epis

Sometimes you just need to switch things up. Doing the same thing over and over again—even if it's the gloriously humble knit stitch—can get tiresome. Today, we'll talk about changing things up, trying something new.

Knitting can produce so many cool things, but sometimes I wonder whether we've boxed ourselves into a corner taste-wise. I love a good fingering-weight, simple cardigan or a geometric shawl as much as the next girl, but

Ever feel like a fish out of water? Watch me draw a loose and utterly ridiculous parallel between myself and Anne of Green Gables in this episode, where I detail my adventures taping a segment for Knitting Daily TV and t

Fall is always crazy-busy when you work in the yarn industry. In this episode, I'm talking about gearing myself up (logistically and psychologically!) for the next week. I've got a book signing, a TV taping, and Rhinebec

Yarn has a memory: memory of what it once was, what you've knit it into, and even where you bought it. Today's discussion focuses on several kinds of memories tied up in yarn: I review SilverSpun yarn, talk about my trip

For the technique segment at the end, I show how to determine the ply structure of a yarn and discuss why you want to pay attention to it.

We've pretty much all been there: for a while you keep careful track of your stash—probably on Ravelry—and then slowly it slips away from you, and you have no idea what you've got anymore. I just re-cataloged my enti