DG Strong
DG Strong is a former graphic designer who gave it all up after being asked by a client to design a logo that featured a house, a dragon and a profile of the client’s daughter. He lives in Nashville with his sister, her rat terrier and a hound dog named Opal. He has a blog of drawings and faintly ridiculous rambling called The Psychopedia; it’s been dormant for a while, but there are worse ways to spend your afternoon.
Contributions From DG Strong
Knit to This: Andrew Bird
No need for apologies on a Sunday morning when you knit to this.
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Knit to This: Françoise Hardy
How to say au revoir to a legend.
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Atlas Insider: Global Entry
Something new is happening at MDK—and our fingers are crossed that it's not a disaster.
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Knit to This: Wicked Little Letters
The perfect partner for an afternoon's knitting includes a pinafore, Olivia Coleman, and lots of cursing.
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Knit to This (If You Can)
Fall into the drama of a home renovation (and a wee bit of textile reconstruction.)
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Atlas Insider: Wound Up
A veteran yarn-winding professional weighs in.
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Knit to This: Monsieur Spade
Gamble on Clive Owen and his shiny, tiny car as they careen into a mystery.
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Knit to This: Fargo (Season Five)
Tasers! Flashbacks! Puppets! A little something for everyone.
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Knit to This: Remember the Night
The perfect movie for Christmas Eve.
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Atlas Insider: Yee Haw
One surefire way to get a handknit sweater with a cowboy on it.
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Knit to This: 4 Things to Check Out
A movie, a book, a song, and a podcast. PLUS: A giveaway!
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Atlas Insider: That Hat
What color is it? Plus: A superspecial HAT GIVEAWAY.
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Knit to This: Nyad
Annette Bening and Jodie Foster absolutely crush it in this new biopic of the ultimate marathon swimmer.
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Knit to This: Bad Sisters
Antiheroes galore in this bonkers Irish comedy-thriller. Fair warning: emotional whiplash likely.
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Knit to This: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
DG recommends Wes Anderson's splendid re-telling of Roald Dahl’s tale. Plus a giveaway!
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Atlas Insider: Gear Shift
On rolling with the hobby upgrade impulse. Plus a giveaway!
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Knit to This: Rhiannon and Tami
One crochets, one knits. They both have new releases out, so listen up. Plus a giveaway!
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Knit to This: Bebel Plays João
Bebel Gilberto covers her father's songs with a light touch that lingers. Plus a giveaway!
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Knit to This: Nina Simone
This newly released, legendary 1966 Newport Jazz Festival set struck DG dumb ... almost. Plus a giveaway!
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Atlas Insider: In the Bag
A discourse on what makes for a great carry-all. Plus a giveaway!
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Knit to This: You Must Remember This
Hours and hours of terrifically engaging listening—grab a king-sized blanket WIP and hit play.
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Knit to This: Linda Ronstadt Singing, Oh, Anything
Recommendations and reminiscences from a devoted fan.
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Knit to This: New from Bettye LaVette
Thrumming along full-force, with a batch of songs to get you up and uplifted.
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Atlas Insider: Back in Black
On the endless hunt for a plain sweater. Plus: A limited edition shade of Atlas! Plus: a giveaway!
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Knit to This: Tinariwen
The latest album from this iconic "desert blues" group is on frequent rotation at DG's. Plus a giveaway!
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Knit to This: EBTG & Rickie Lee
Two gorgeous new albums worth the wait. Plus a giveaway!
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Knit to This: Jessie Ware Double Whammy!
You might actually prefer to dance to this. Plus a giveaway!
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Knit to This: Poker Face
This series does retro just right. Enter the giveaway!
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Knit to This: Black Opry
Concerts, playlists, and a website portal to country, Americana, blues, and folk music being made by Black artists.
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Atlas Insider: Out and About in Puerto Vallarta
Head out with an MDK team member to his home-away-from-Atlas.
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Knit to This: Benediction
DG is back with another Terence Davies film for your queue. Plus a giveaway!
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Knit to This: Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories
Start a new holiday tradition with these spooky tales.
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Atlas Insider: Gate Crasher
Where is that fob? The full story plus a giveaway!
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Knit to This: The Outfit
Mark Rylance expertly wields some massive tailor shears in this gripping mystery.
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Knit to This: Desert Island Discs
DG dives into the archives of this BBC Radio classic and comes up with a handful of listens to get you started.
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Knit to This: Chef’s Table
Whether or not pizza is your favorite food group, this series insightfully answers the question "Why do people make things?"
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Atlas Insider: Them Apples
DG takes us down memory lane and into his high school art class—plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Atlas Insider: Knitting the National Parks
Celebrating national treasures with yarn and needles.
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Knit to This: Hollywood Chinese
Arthur Dong’s documentary introduces an intriguing collection of films featured this month at The Criterion Channel.
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Atlas Insider: Winnowing
On cleaning house, warehouse, and basement. Plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: Tami Neilson
Kingmaker is an album of great beauty that defies easy classification.
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Atlas Insider: Not Why I Learned to Knit
On being grateful and open to learning.
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Knit to This: The Only Persuasion
In which we have A HISTORY LESSON, followed by DG, Esq. doing some RAMBLING.
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Knit to This: A Life in Song
Stops-you-in-your-tracks listening.
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Knit to This: The Bear
Hungry for knittertainment? DG's got your order ready.
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Knit to This: Beach Watch
For when tv is the best sunscreen.
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Atlas Insider: Glitch Happens
Into each site a little malfunction must fall. Plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: House Music
Turning it all off to knit and listen.
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Atlas Insider: Trippin’
It’s warming up and the MDK team is going places—plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: Neko Case
In which DG writes for an audience of one.
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Knit to This: Julia
Just when you think you've had your fill—a complete charmer of a series like this comes along.
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Atlas Insider: I’m with the Band
Come for the donuts, stay for the Juice. Plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: Victrola Roundup
Fire up the turntable and take these albums for a spin.
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Atlas Insider: Befriend Your Fishmonger
A smile and a wave can make all the difference. Plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: Somebody Somewhere
An absolute favorite series from opening shot to stick-the-landing finish.
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Atlas Insider: Handle with Care
A man on a mission . . . with a mailer. Plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: Vanya on 42nd Street
The best kind of theater-ish magic.
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Knit to This: Painting with John
Bouncing tires, painting, and the big questions.
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Atlas Insider: Like Things Together
One of these things is not like the other. Plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Back for more Midge in Season 4.
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Atlas Insider: Order Up!
Welcome to MDK. May we take your order? Plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: The Long Day Closes
The perfect DG-kind-of-movie.
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Atlas Insider: Behind the Chifforobe
In which our hero takes on a new project. Plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: Around the World in 80 Days
Until the miniseries about Jane Digby gets made...
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Knit to This: Antique Shanghai Pop
Pop music from the 1930s and ‘40s to enchant and delight you.
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Atlas Insider: Amazement
From miles of aisles to miles of smiles.
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Atlas Insider: Yarn Mountain
Ain't no mountain high enough to keep us getting your yarn to you—plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: Olivia Colman
Two new shows featuring a truly great and versatile performer.
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Atlas Insider: Meeting, Schmeeting
Go ahead, we'll catch you—plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: The Holly and the Ivy
A heavy-duty home for the holidays tale.
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Atlas Insider: The Search for Meaning (and Doughnuts)
Lemon curd, in case you’re wondering—plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: The French Dispatch
Like a collection of bibelots—with a score to delight in.
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Atlas Insider: Supply Chain of Fools
A pretty pickle—plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: Project Runway
The OG shmatte show is back—fabulously.
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Knit to This: Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Enough said.
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Atlas Insider: The Long and Winding Road
And when there were no waffle cones, he wound yarn—plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: Scenes from a Marriage
Thumbs up from a Bergman devotee.
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Atlas Insider: Little Hut on the Campus
There's no place like hut—plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: Let’s Talk to Lucy
The OG podcaster—who knew?
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Atlas Insider: True Colors
Don't be afraid to let them show—except maybe the yellow cummerbund.
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Atlas Insider: Combo Plate
Special combos don't upset us ... much—plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: Only Murders in the Building
Great performances and cast chemistry make for an appealing new series.
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Atlas Insider: Cyborganization Nation
Get ready for 2021: An MDK Odyssey.
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Knit to This: The Other Two
A showbiz family comedy starring Molly Shannon. Stop by to celebrate MDK Staycation ending soon.
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Atlas Insider: Busier Than a Moth in a Mitten
Morning down time can keep a team occupied.
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Atlas Insider: Is Your Refrigerator Running?
Mysteries of the office refrigerator—plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: Like I Used To
The Strong song summer of 2021.
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Atlas Insider: Heat Wave
Think cooling thoughts. Or at least have a laugh. Plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Atlas Insider: Turn On the Yarn Spigots
Company's coming—look busy! Plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: Yola/Mitford
A ding-dang double whammy of things I'm looking forward to.
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Atlas Insider: Miles of Aisles
It's the most shelf-assembling time of the year—plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: Schmigadoon!
A love letter to vintage musicals.
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Atlas Insider: In the Neighborhood
Born to be Mild—plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: The Plot Thickens
Save some room for "The Devil's Candy."
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Atlas Insider: Let’s Do Lunch
A bulletin from the Delicious District—plus a GIVEAWAY!
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Knit to This: Amythyst Kiah
Listening that packs the force of a summer storm.
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Atlas Insider: Slackers
It's how all the cool kids ask where the stapler is.
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Knit to This: Blood, Sex & Money
Are you ready to Zola?
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Atlas Insider: The Sound of Music
MDK world headquarters is alive with the sound of … various sounds. Plus—a GIVEAWAY!
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Atlas Insider: Fireflies
A wonder-filled woodland walk. Plus: a giveaway!
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Knit to This: Daphne Rubin-Vega
A great performer in two venues to relish her work.
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Atlas Insider: Notes on Notes
What are the beets for? Plus: a giveaway!
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Knit to This: Teddy & Jenni Do Porter & Dolly
The sweetest lil’ batch of songs that don’t mess around too much.
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Atlas Insider: The Yarny Express
An ode to the USPS. Plus: a giveaway!
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Knit to This: Dawn Oberg
Listening that might just get you back to the sizzling nightclub scene.
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Atlas Insider: Field Guides Brainstorm
Little books that explore the big world of canned vegetables ... among other things.
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Knit to This: The Underground Railroad
A series to take in one dazzling episode at a time.
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Atlas Insider: Y’arn Y’all
It's all puns and games until you have to send the package out correctly.
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Knit to This: Make Way for Lucia
The cake frosting of book series is all queued up for your summer reading.
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Atlas Insider: The Birds
A whole lot of flapping going on. Plus: A Giveaway! Come on and enter.
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Atlas Insider: The Mysteries of Knitting
Ceci n'est pas un door knob.
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Knit to This: Mare of Easttown
A series that provides pleasures in the details and the grace notes.
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Knit to This: Ella Fitzgerald
Listening to this should be the easiest decision you’ve ever made.
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Atlas Insider: The Blues
The latest news from the room where it happens. Plus: a giveaway!
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Knit to This: Cocaine & Rhinestones
A podcast that takes you into the dark corners of country music.
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Knit to This: The Great Pottery Throwdown
A skill-based competition show that hits the sweet spot.
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Knit to This: Loretta Lynn
A new album, as clean and clear as ever.
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Knit to This: Obscure
An improv genius makes audiobooks. Hilarity ensues.
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Lazy Sunday: Call My Agent
A workplace comedy set in the ludicrous world of celebrity talent agents.
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Knit to This: Aria Code
A podcast that deconstructs and analyzes a famous aria each week.
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Knit to This: Playing on Air
Too many playwrights and actors to cherry-pick: just listen to them all.
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Lazy Sunday: The Lost Kitchen
A series that will have you licking your chops . . . and postcard stamps.
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Lazy Sunday: Fran Lebowitz
Pretend It's a City is the new Netflix series that feels like we're across the table from this legendary writer.
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Knit to This: Greenfields
The Gibb brothers' songbook, but make it Nashville.
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Lazy Sunday: A Suitable Boy
A simple story nested inside a tangled epic.
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Knit to This: Radio Deluxe
600-plus hours of greatness, plus married-couple banter.
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Knit to This: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker
A documentary about the real process of making art.
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Whitman, Alabama
Crisscrossing the state and asking people to share a part of themselves through the words of Walt Whitman.
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Knit to This: The American Barbecue Showdown
Your next cooking competition series is here.
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Loudon Wainwright III
A trip to a 1920s jazz club seems like the best idea ever. Fresh new takes on some classic songs.
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The Queen’s Gambit
A new series about a chess prodigy that overturns all the sports-movie tropes.
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Knit to This: Mary Chapin Carpenter
In which we welcome DG Strong, a new contributor who will delight and amuse you.
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RibbonQuest 2017
The only way to get over winning a blue ribbon is to try to win another one. An epic tale from an epic knitter.
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