Jagged Lines

Melting the ICE with Red Hats

Red hats with a pointy crown have suddenly exploded in popularity among the online knitting community.

Feb 7 • Lanja Khon-Engheim

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December 2025

November 2025

The Vicissitudes of Unemployment

And a new job opportunity

Nov 30, 2025 • Lanja Khon-Engheim

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September 2025

Yarn Diet: World War II Edition

Norwegian knitters in World War II had to get creative in the face of yarn shortages. Here are some of their tips and tricks.

Sep 21, 2025 • Lanja Khon-Engheim

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August 2025

How I Knitted Socks for Fighting Fascists

In which I explain the background to my pattern for “Socks for Fighting Fascists.” The pattern is available as a PDF download at the bottom of this…

Aug 30, 2025 • Lanja Khon-Engheim

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How I Knitted the No Kings Hat

In this post, I discuss my design process for the No Kings beanie.

Aug 22, 2025 • Lanja Khon-Engheim

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June 2025

Identifying AI-Generated Knitwear

Having used ChatGPT to help me write my first-ever sock pattern — and having used Midjourney to generate an execrable image to illustrate said sock — I…

Jun 26, 2025 • Lanja Khon-Engheim

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ChatGPT Knits a Sock

Will AI take my job? For the past few years, many people around the world have asked themselves this very question, and knitting and crochet designers…

Jun 18, 2025 • Lanja Khon-Engheim

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May 2025

Celebrating Labour Day in Legotown

Gratulerer med arbeidernes dag! Happy Labour Day from Legotown!

May 1, 2025 • Lanja Khon-Engheim

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April 2025

Building the Resistance in Legotown

In April 2025, dozens of Lego minifigures in Norway turned out in solidarity with Americans to protest the Trump regime. This is their story.

Apr 23, 2025 • Lanja Khon-Engheim

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"An Infernal Spectacle": Franco-Prussian War Dead in Bazeilles

I've never visited Bazeilles, but its ossuary, which contains the remains of more than 2000 soldiers who died in 1870, exerts a fascination over me from…

Apr 1, 2025 • Lanja Khon-Engheim

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March 2025

What do non-US media sources say about Trump?

In this article, I examine how the foreign press portrays Donald Trump and his administration and policies.

Mar 25, 2025 • Lanja Khon-Engheim

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