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Dear Elizabeth Zimmermann…

09.08.2010

Today, 8/9/10, would have been Elizabeth Zimmermann’s 100th birthday. If you’re a knitter, this is a day to celebrate a woman who gave so many of us permission to knit. And like many others, I owe her so much… I learned how to knit by watching my mother when I was around seven. It was [...]

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Oh, Good — It’s Not Just Me

27.12.2009

I was over at my new favorite knitting site, Twist Collective, reading Ask the Problem Ladies, and found comforting words to a knitter’s (okay, this knitter’s) ear: “…working on multiple projects fills us with creative energy.” To backtrack, the question posed was about being in a knitting shop and overhearing a customer looking for a new project. [...]

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Knitting? Difficult? Probably the Same Way Writing Is. (And with the same solutions.)

17.12.2009

Knitting confounds people some times, especially when they want to have knitted. That’s like people who want to have written. They love the idea but either don’t know or don’t want to know the effort required to get to that place. If you love something—be it knitting, writing, playing the cello, painting portraits, whatever—it’s going [...]

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I Do This All the Time

14.12.2009

I should know better, but I do this all the time. I visit my local knitting shop knowing full well I don’t need any more wool. But I went anyway. Yesterday. Where I live—as in the county—we’re down to one knitting shop. And it’s not even in my town. The Village Sheep had been a [...]

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