All the News That’s Fit to Stitch: Part the Ninth

From far and wide, from across the Interwebs (a.k.a. the Electronic Cat Database) and beyond, I bring you all the news from the worlds of knitting and stitching that I could gather this week:

• Professor Fonz has done it again! You may remember her designs, like the “Deduction Game Chullo,” from my obsessive posts on the knits featured in BBC Sherlock series (the first one in the series is here). To go with her cardigan based on the popular “The Wallpaper Had it Coming Again” fair isle pattern, the “#SherlockLives Cardi,” she has added a boatneck-style sweater entitled, “Let’s Play Murder.” According to the Ravelry pattern site, it’s “crime-solving at its most luxurious.” I’ve been working on ampersand design’s “The Wallpaper Had it Coming (Again)” mittens which, although based on the same fair isle pattern, is obviously a much smaller design, and I have to agree with Professor Fonz’s assessment that this fair isle patterned sweater is probably not a project to be entered into lightly by someone who is just beginning to work with the fair isle technique. The results speak for themselves, of course:

• Granny Square-apalooza!

• This brings Stitch ‘n’ Pitch games to a whole new level.

• What a ball of wool can teach us about healthy aging. How come all the academic talks I’ve been subjected to in my life were never this entertaining? (thanks, martinimade)

• Jared Flood on the tools of his trade. Drool.

• “It’s a bit Christo, a bit Andy Goldsworthy and a bit like your grandma’s tea cozy.” Yarn-bombing Boston-style.