Ginger Chick Knits

11/01/2021

"Morse Code" bracelets

11/01/2021

Double wrap beaded bracelet

01/05/2021

I just love working with seed beads! These beauties are woven on silk thread with real 24k gold accent beads.

10/13/2019

Want to learn to knit? Here are some tips:

You don’t even need that special crafting gene or superhuman dexterity.

10/11/2019

This yarn gets warmer in the sun!

Affordable and readily available, Red Heart is the yarn brand that many knitters, including me, used the first time we picked up a pair of needles. I was surprised to see a pitch from them land in my inbox, since hand-knitting yarn is usually something I don’t get to cover for TechCrunch. But the ...

10/09/2019

Sylvester McCoy models scarves!

The long scarf is going large this season – so who better to model it than the seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy?

10/08/2019

Science and knitting! You can knit a scarf or wall hanging with temperature data for a given year, how cool is that?

The Tempestry Project Visualizing climate data in a way that is accurate, personal, tangible, and beautiful. Shop Now A Tempestry is a wallhanging, or temperature tapestry, that represents the daily high temperature for a given year and location, with January at the bottom and December at the top .....

03/07/2019

Knitting and science, two of my favorite things!

Dating back more than 3,000 years, knitting is an ancient form of manufacturing, but Elisabetta Matsumoto of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta believes that understanding how stitch types govern shape and stretchiness will be invaluable for designing new "tunable" materials. For instanc...

01/22/2019

These are so cute! I'm still teaching myself to crochet.

Kate Jenkins’s delicacies often look better than the real thing.

12/17/2018

How cool is this?

“[I had] the idea of making a somewhat mysterious and difficult object—a brain—out of a ‘cuddly,’ cheerful, familiar material like cotton yarn.”