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Stick It To Me (or, Fall Is Here)

by paige on September 15, 2009

yarn balls

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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Embroidering the Truth

by paige on June 12, 2009

charlottesampler

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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