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Author: Emily Wessel

Hi! I’m Emily Wessel, I design fun-to-knit patterns, and develop our knitting pattern app. I live on Vancouver Island, Canada, with my husband and two kids, where I like to run, knit, learn languages, and hang out with friends. I am co-founder and designer at Tin Can Knits - www.tincanknits.com

Front teeth

September 27, 2021 Emily Wessel

Sharp bright, slicing white… Continue reading Front teeth

Old crumbles

September 20, 2021September 27, 2021 Emily Wessel

Why do crumbling old stone buildings seem so much more real, more significant and truthy than the new ones we shape of fine extrusions of aluminum, glass and plastic… Continue reading Old crumbles

You Me and the Weather

September 19, 2021September 21, 2021 Emily Wessel

You me, you me, and the weather,
You me, you me, and the storm… Continue reading You Me and the Weather

Loch Lomond

September 18, 2021September 21, 2021 Emily Wessel

In moments I was suspended over the deep dark waters of the loch… Continue reading Loch Lomond

Limpets

September 17, 2021September 21, 2021 Emily Wessel

We’d pick them off the big round stones below the tide line, and then hunt for a deep white geoduck clam shell… Continue reading Limpets

Unknowable cities

September 16, 2021September 18, 2021 Emily Wessel

San Francisco is so big as to feel unknowable, like I couldn’t ever expect to be able to wrap my metaphoric arms around it… Continue reading Unknowable cities

City love

September 15, 2021September 18, 2021 Emily Wessel

As a precocious and lonely fifteen-year-old, I spent three months in the friendly city of Bremen, Germany. This convinced me that the city was where I wanted to live… Continue reading City love

Another passion project

September 14, 2021September 16, 2021 Emily Wessel

I don’t ACTUALLY need another passion project… Continue reading Another passion project

Pierced by green

September 13, 2021September 16, 2021 Emily Wessel

The moon hangs in a black sky. The cold is full and whole, confident, with no threats to its crystalline heart… Continue reading Pierced by green

Raw edges

September 12, 2021September 15, 2021 Emily Wessel

We walked briskly, at the pace of suburban mums, speaking of our fathers and our fears… Continue reading Raw edges

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