Archive for June, 2007

It’s Always Winter Somewhere

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

And right now it’s winter here:

Because it doesn’t winter like this very often here, we all turn into big kids at the slightest hint of snow and go out to play in it. More than once on our walk this morning I gazed in wonder at toboggan tracks that disappeared over ridiculously steep inclines – [...]

Marguerite Complete

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

I’ve finished the Marguerite Baby Cardigan that I started a while ago.

I’m not quite as taken by the yarn as I was initially – it’s static cling really annoyed me after a while. It’s easy to get sick of knitting three stitches then having to pause to remove your hair/cat fur/thread/etc. from the work. I [...]

Pictures from the Past

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

I’ve been looking through the Library Of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Online Catalog. It has some great images.
It seems that before women had swifts they had men:

that knitting in groups is no new thing:

and that knitting transcends age and social status: