Knitting Blog Recs

[havocthecat]

Does anyone have suggestions for useful, good knitting blogs? I'm not a particularly twee person, so I'm looking for anything useful and interesting, but not cutesy. I've been looking, but there are so many knitting blogs out there that it's hard to winnow through them all.

Thank you for any suggestions!

Comments

[bedlamsbard]

The Yarn Harlot is a classic (and for a reason!), and another one I really like is Knitting to Stay Sane, which sometimes has great tutorials. I also like Tanis Fiber Arts.

*watches this post with interest*

[crystal_lilly]

I second the Knitting to Stay Sane blog, I love reading her posts. ^_____^

(And now I get to go check out some of the other links posted here, yay!)

[gumbie_cat]

My very favourite knitting blog is: techhknitting.blogspot.com

It's not updated very often, but it's been going a while and there's a pretty big back catalogue at this point. The illustrations and explanations are excellent. It's one of my first stops when I'm trying any new technique.

[troisroyaumes]

Seconding the rec for techknitting!

[kuri]

Thirding tech knitting. So useful.

[frotz]

Franklin Habit's blog is often extremely entertaining as well as being a source of really wonderfully obscure things: http://the-panopticon.blogspot.com/

I'll third TECHknitting; it's often a bit dry but the technical content is just stellar. It's more of a reference than something to keep up with on a regular basis. (Not to mention it's on vacation.)

The Yarn Harlot is definitely worth a look, too. (Honestly, I don't find it nearly as entertaining as I used to and her books don't grab me like they used to, but I'm not sure if I changed or if her writing did!)

[jackandahat]

Seconding all the comments on Yarn Harlot - I love her older stuff, but her most recent book seemed to have more stuff about her kids, husband and writing than it did knitting (I haven't actually added up how many of each, but quite a few of the stories were not knitting-related in any way.)

The thing with Yarn Harlot is that it is her personal blog, rather than being a dedicated "knitting blog". So when she took up spinning, it shifted to knitting + spinning, and now she's heavily into exercise it's knitting + spinning + riding. Has actually happened in quite a few blogs where people reach a certain point and develop a major interest in exercise/their diet and the blog shifts to being mostly about that.

[opusculasedfera]

Agreed about the Yarn Harlot. I suspect a lot of it is the usual problem of bloggers getting book deals and then finding that a lot of what they have to write about now is book tours, which understandably tends to be a bit same-y, and not quite the content their original readers were there for. Still, worth a look, she's still entertaining, and if you've never read her musings on book readings before, they'll seem less re-hashed to you.

[pensnest]

I like http://samuraiknitter.blogspot.co.uk/ She's become a bit erratic/irregular lately, but there's a lot of stuff to catch up on. Lots of common sense, lots of practical usefulness, and some delicious reviews of Vogue Knitting.

[anatsuno]

Not just on knitting, but I love, love Kate Davies' writing on wool, knitting, textiles, clothing, her design work and her life. I also enjoy her photography and her patterns - and she is the antithesis of twee. http://katedaviesdesigns.com

[pinesandmaples]

These blogs are on my "particularly inspiring" list, but I'm inspired by a lot of off-beat items:

Canary Knits does an indie designer showcase once a week that I love and find useful.

I read Anne Hanson's Knitspot blog for the pictures, which are always stunning.

Knitted Bliss does Modification Monday, showing off a knitter who transformed one pattern into another idea with lovely results. She also has an infant who makes regular appearances, as a warning. Still, I find the inspiration of Modification Monday worth the subscription.

My personal soft spot blog is Jean Knits, where an older expat writes about a lot of the more technical sides of knitting, but not in an educational sort of way. She just drops names and facts. I love it, but I'm someone who prefers impetus to do my own research.