As anyone who has seen me in a seminar knows, I am a chronic knitter and frequent writer of knitting patterns. Here are highlights as an incentive for me to continue a tangible creative pursuit alongside the intangibility of academia.
Fair Isle sweater, knitted when the Suez Canal was blocked.
Baby cable sweater w/ brioche trim.
Spring 2025 decline of the constitutional republic cardigan.
Scrap yarn cable + colorwork sweater, knit during a class on revolution + genocide.
2024 Q1 Ph.D.-admission-decision-distraction crocheted shirt.
Collared alpaca sweater, feat. Angus.
Five-day Succession-binge sweater, feat. Dadoo. I will be the first in my family to earn a Ph.D. but am the second to be in the U.A.W.
Brioche undergrad thesis dress. Is it internalized misogyny if I wrote the pattern + didn't think to add pockets for years?
Fair Isle vest, knit in class after the professor questioned whether this knitting page belongs on the website, feat. the Ph.D. cohort bakers.
March 2020 yarn-from-the-garage blanket, feat. Chester.
Vertical garter stitch sweater, made w/ buttons from my other grandfather's home town.
Pink pussy hat, made for the January 2017 Women's March.
Detail from a Celtic cable runner.
Felted cable sweater for disappearing.
Cross-stitched mortarboards, 2018 + 2022.