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 [...]
Is there water in the pool?
Posted in Knitting, Life reflections, Sock knitting on May 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When I was 21 I dove into a small swimming pool, too small and too shallow, I later realized, for it to have had a diving board of any sort poised over it. That was when I learned what it meant to “see stars,” and hear an unforgettable sound–in this case the sound of my [...]
A mutant Citron
Posted in Friends and family, Knitting, Life reflections, Sock knitting on May 24, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Meditational knitting is a good way to travel –either out of or back into real life. I’ve been doing this recently and have hit upon an attractive mutation of a little shawlette pattern in the process. In a previous post I mentioned knitting “Citron” (designed by Hilary Smith Callis and featured in Knitty.com, Winter 2009). [...]
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 [...]
Meltdown in the electronic cottage.
Posted in Knitting, Life reflections, Sock knitting on April 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Yes, there’s been a lot of that happening here in our condo after 5+ years. Things have been going belly-up with mystifying regularity. Remembering words from a Robert Frost poem, “the best way out is always through,” I’ve been working through this, eager to finish so I can get back to my knitting and projects [...]
It’s never too late for holiday gifts
Posted in Friends and family, Knitting, Life reflections, Sock knitting on March 22, 2010 | 17 Comments »
I grew up in a last-minute family. Because church didn’t start until 11 am, my mother rarely left the house before 10:50 am, even when she was the choir director, because “we live so close–it just takes a minute to get there.” When friends and relatives were invited over for dinner or for a weekend [...]
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 [...]
A new sock yarn
Posted in Sock knitting, Yarns and tools on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve returned to real life and knitting today following the tv spot adventure. It felt good to pick up the sock-in-progress and knit a few rounds as I enjoyed my first cup of coffee in the quiet, early morning light. The socks have been waiting patiently, as knitting projects do, maybe even appreciating being left alone [...]
What a day and so little sock knitting to show for it….
Posted in Friends and family, Life reflections, Sock knitting on March 9, 2010 | 13 Comments »
This post is by necessity short–I’m even too tired to knit and that’s really tired! I finally got to see the Today Show segment on aarp.org and the articles posted there. I smiled as I read about teaching my daughter to knit. She loves knitting, too, and here I once thought it might skip a [...]
