Will Knit for Math

With a baby, a toddler, a full-time job, and a pandemic going on, I didn't get much knitting done this summer and fall.  But I did get a...

These are  Skew socks , with Knitpicks Felici yarn.  I really like how they turned out in self-striping yarn!  I used 2mm and 2.25mm needles...

Since my baby was born a year ago, I've really been savoring my crafting time.  So I'm not upset to have frogged and re-started t...

I cast on the first of these socks almost a year ago, as I was sitting in my hospital bed waiting for things to get going on my induction...

In the six years I lived in Texas, I knit a lot of socks and almost never wore them.  When we moved to the Midwest a year and a half ago, ...

What I wore: Monday, May 1: My favorite thrifted jeans (RTW), a casual button-down shirt (RTW), Lofoten sweater, light brown handknit sock...

I learned a new skill last week!  This sock (the first pair I made for Robert) has been sitting in my mending pile for several weeks.  I ...

Robert's birthday was just over a month ago, and he had been wanting another pair of handknitted socks.  I knitted them in secret, but...

I finished the knot theory socks in time to give them to my advisor on the day of my Ph.D. hooding. As I said in my first post about the...

Every Thursday of the academic year for the last six years, I've gone to two seminars: CMS, the graduate student seminar in my depar...

I'm a knot theorist.  (I've posted about this before.)  I defended my Ph.D. thesis last week, my semester ends next week (with me ...

I finished the leg and knitted the heel flap on the first of Robert's birthday socks.  I ended up just sitting with nothing to do with...

I started a new project in CMS last week - a project I'm not working on at home, because these socks are going to be a birthday surpri...

I knit these socks almost entirely on airplanes and in airports ... they're my job interview socks!  I started them on the way to the...

I'm graduating this year and on the job market, so I'm traveling a lot for interviews this spring. First there was a trip for conf...

I don't have any CMS knitting to report on from this week, since I finished my self-striping socks in Colloquium the week before.  I...

I feel like I'm not making any progress on my knitting lately.  I seem to be knitting everything at least twice.  This is a sweater fo...

I'm almost to the heel turn on my first stripey sock, but I'm going to rip it out.  I started doing a Fleegle heel (which I recent...

I finished my Swans Island Socks last weekend.  I'm really happy with how they turned out!  I used Swans Island sock yarn, which is an...

I was away at a conference and camping last week.  The top picture is how my knitting looked when I left, and here it was when I got home...