As I've already teased, I have an article and design coming up in issue 3 of PURL magazine, the ribbing issue. Writing the article was not difficult. I knew when I put in the proposal I could use my own handouts as a starting point. The greater challenge was designing the project. For an assortment of reasons including missteps of my own, this ended up being an epic project with about 234,000 stitches. I needed to finish it on deadline. I'm very fortunate I had left June and July mostly unscheduled for 2026. I am also a fast knitter. Even for me, this was a challenge. I had to pause and think about both how to meet the deadline and how to do it without damaging my body. Here's the approach I took. Before I start, let me insert standard disclaimer about not offering medical advice. My point is to tell you what I did not what you should do. But I also want you, dear knitter, to know that it is possible to knit a lot without pain. If knitting is causin...
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