by Sandi Rosner

For a sweater to take shape in a form other than your basic rectangle, you’ll need to add and/or subtract some stitches along the way. In the Winter issue, we explored a variety of ways to increase the number of stitches on your needles. Since most garment shaping requires the use of decreases as well as increases, in this installment, we’ll look at different types of decreases.

by Clara Parkes

When you think about socks, which do you think about first, the design or the yarn? Chances are, the design. Most people do.

But I hope you give a little thought to the yarn, too. This is the entire premise of my book, The Knitter’s Book of Socks, or as I like to think of it, Socks from the Yarn Up—that yarn makes a huge difference in your socks.

by Leslie Petrovski

With wool prices skyrocketing and the economy sputtering, why bother with organic wool? If you’re not eating it, and there’s no data supporting the health benefits of wearing it, why pay the uplift? And what does it mean for wool to be organic anyway?

by Daryl Brower
Illustrations by Adriana Hernandez

Halfway between mainland Shetland and Orkney sits the island known as Fair Isle. It’s a tiny island to be sure—six miles square at most— but its coves harbor some of the most treacherous tides to be found. Long, long ago (in 1588 if you must be exact about these things) El Gran Grifon, the great flagship of the Spanish Armada, went to wreck along the cliffs of the most treacherous of them all, Stroms Hellier.

by by Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne
Illustrations by Franklin Habit

The problem ladies have all the answers!