Hello all! In order to start to get the word out about my shop, I am having a Fall Is Nearly Here! sale on all of the pillow covers currently in my shop. Because, so far as I understand the world of business, people selling stuff have sales on their stuff during any + every holiday possible. And, while they all call it Labor Day, I call September 1st Fall Is Nearly Here! Day. And if ever there were a thing to celebrate with a sale, it is Fall being nearly here. So, get 15% off all items currently in the shop (the pillow cover above was just added today) using the discount code FALLSALE. Sale ends on Sept. 2. Enjoy + happy shopping!

The leaning tower of socks, that is. Look it here, proof that I still knit, despite my summer vacation from blogging! Okay, so maybe this particular leaning tower is built out of single socks, but they won’t be singe for much longer. This October (or, rather, Socktober), I’m going to start methodically working through the single socks I’ve accumulated and crank out the mates. This new blog needs new FOs, yes? Yes.

Thank you for all of your comments on the new site + store! I’m pretty pleased with both. I mean, posting again after just 2 days?? Clearly, change is good.

Hello + welcome to the new home of the Knitting Philistine! As you can see, many changes have been in the works Chez Philistine this summer, and I am happy to say that the new digs + shop are nearing completion. Yes! I did say shop! My new shop of handsewn goods is just one of many dramatic changes I’ve made, and it is certainly the biggest one. Okay, perhaps the *biggest* one was the decision to leave my PhD program and graduate school. I’m sure there will be more ramblings about that soon enough. In the meantime, I hope you will have a look around my new blog + update your RSS feeds + have a peek inside my shop. Oh! And I should probably introduce the new family feline… Simon Flavius Cat. Many of you are familiar with him from Flickr, but for those of you who aren’t, let me just say, he’s a rascal. And he will likely join Edwin Claudius Cat (otherwise known as ECC) in many appearances ’round here.

I have a ginormous backlog of things to show + tell y’all, but I’m going to take it one step + one post at a time…. and fear not, I have a nice pile of single socks to show y’all from this summer’s knitting. That’s right, this is still a knitting blog, though I have expanded my crafting to include sewing + quilting, so I’m sure I’ll have plenty of stuff to say about those topics as well.

More soon!