I LOVE TO KNIT. I love my daughter. Shouldn’t the two go together? [click to continue…]
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I F YOU HAVE LITTLE KIDS who are bookworms (in the “read to me, Mommy!” sense, like mine) you may already know the work of Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Her sweet tale Little Pea is one of our family’s favorites, but her extra-literary projects were unknown to me until a tip from a favorite blogger sent me off into the larger world of Amy’s amazing work. [click to continue…]
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There once was a girl from New York,
Whose husband thought she was a dork.
She’d knit without fail
In the snow, sleet and hail,
But come summer, cast off needlework.
OK, SO I’M NOT MUCH OF A POET. Or a limericist. But you get the idea. I absolutely, cannot, CANNOT knit when the weather’s warm. (Though I did once finish a shawl on vacation in Hawaii. But that was when I lived in Los Angeles, and if I wanted to knit, I couldn’t let hot weather stand in my way. Another life, another time.) [click to continue…]
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Charlotte Brontë's first sampler
YOU KNOW HOW great it feels when you find a sister (or sister-friend) loves one of your wacky obsessions as much as you do? Well, we’re pretty sure that the Brontës would have shared our obsession with the wonderful opportunities for, um, self-expression through embroidery. [click to continue…]
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THERE WAS A particular sweater that became the high-water mark of pre-grunge, post-hippie preppy fashion when I was 15. It wasn’t particularly pretty, or soft, or from a status brand. Nope, that sweater fell into fashion because it signified ability, ability to commit and follow through, and having enough free time to do something other than school work, sometimes a rarity in the academic pressure-cooker that was my high school experience. If you, or better, your boyfriend, was wearing this sweater, it meant you were a knitter, and, believe it or not, then as now, that was cool. [click to continue…]
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