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Fusenews: Answer – The Horse
The laptop of my infinite sadness continues to remain broken which wrecks a certain special kind of havoc with my gray cells. To distract myself, I plunge headlong into the silliest news of the week....
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The Scourge of Upside Down Knitting
When you grow up with a mother who is a knitter, there are certain facts in life that you simply have to accept. Knitting all the time, everywhere, is the norm. A bookshelf full of different kinds of...
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Fusenews: In my next life I’m coming back as a “Rotraut”
A lot to say and so little time to say it. Let’s get started! Today, if you are at all feeling blue, I suggest you read The Toast piece Jaya Catches Up: A Little Princess which is a killer breakdown...
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Review of the Day: Leave Me Alone! by Vera Brosgol
Leave Me Alone! By Vera Brosgol Roaring Brook Press (an imprint of Macmillan) $17.99 ISBN: 9781626724419 Ages 4-7 On shelves September 13th Knitting. It shouldn’t be so hard. I say this as the grown...
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Famous Illustrators’ Depictions of Knitting Ranked in Order of Competency
Two years ago I wrote a piece called The Scourge of Upside Down Knitting in which I raged unto the heavens against picture books where the artists put little work into bothering to figure out if...
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The Scourge of Skyward Knitting Needles: Pandemic Edition!
Yes! It’s every knitter’s favorite fact finding post, in which we closely examine the knitting needles in a whole host of different children’s books and determine which books get it right and which...
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The Scourge of Skyward Knitting Needles: Gettin’ Finicky With the Fiber Arts!
Folks, it’s like I always say. It takes so little research to get something as simple as knitting correct in a picture book. And yet, and yet, and yet, year after year we watch some of the best...
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The Scourge of Upside Down Knitting Needles: Or, Why Picture Books with...
Two years ago Chuck Wendig asked Twitter the following question: So, naturally, I wrote this reply: In the pantheon of completely, utterly nonsensical things to care about, this is my hill. I have...
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