Pinch me so I can see that this is real!! I took my first class with Nancy Bush in 1992 when Stitches was in Portland, and I was living in Seattle. Hopefully Stitches will happen again in Portland, so more local knitters can benefit from the experience. I already loved sock knitting, but knew there [...]
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Pinch me!!
Posted in Books, Classes, Knitting, Life reflections, Sock knitting on March 1, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Remembering Berlin
Posted in Books, Classes, Friends and family, Knitting, Sock knitting on January 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
When last heard from, I was packing to go off to Germany and The Netherlands with my daughter. The trip’s purpose was a book tour, timed with the release of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” in German and Dutch. Several weeks ago I bumped into a former knitting student who said she’d been watching this [...]
Tincture of time
Posted in Books, Friends and family, Knitting, Life reflections on September 11, 2010 | 5 Comments »
My physician gave me a wonderful phrase to use in thinking about the loss of the dogs—the “tincture of time.” It is more than seven weeks since I last blogged, and the tincture is working! Today I walked through the Farmers’ Market a block away from where I live. The sun was wonderfully warm, despite [...]
Fountain Pen Lace for a writer
Posted in Books, Friends and family, Knitting, Project Gallery on May 20, 2010 | 7 Comments »
What a gift it’s been to have several visits with my daughter Rebecca during her four-month long tour to promote her best selling nonfiction book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” She reported on facebook last week that the movie rights have been purchased by Oprah, Alan Ball and HBO—-and so away she goes into [...]
A proud mother’s dream
Posted in Books, Friends and family, Life reflections, Sock knitting on April 14, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Since I moved to the Northwest in 1984, Powell’s Bookstore on Burnside in Portland has been a favorite place where I could lose myself for hours. This Monday night life again became surreal, and I lived out a long held dream by attending a book reading there. The difference from other book readings was that [...]
A nice sock yardage surprise
Posted in Books, Sock knitting, Yarns and tools on March 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Since the last blog, I taught a 6-hour beginning sock workshop and completed the final review of the manuscript for the revised “Knit Socks!” I’m glad the book is finished and very pleased with it. Before it’s published in September 2010, I’ll preview a pattern or two. The brightly striped socks I’ve been knitting on [...]
