Carina Spencer recently posted a pic of the autofill on a google search…. It was a totally strange thing to see “knitters are ruining this country” in the mix. So I googled it, and the first result is a self-admitted rant from a knitter who also crochets and has had a lot of bad feedback […]
Miriam Felton
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On my love affair with Granny Squares
I learned to crochet when I was 8. But my love of Granny Squares came a bit later. An 8-year-old doesn’t have a lot of free cash to buy bunches of different colored yarns, and I would save my allowance or raid my mom’s craft room stash to make doll blankets, and covers for tables, […]
Reading: Citizens by Simon Schama
I’ve been reading my way back through Game of Thrones, alternating with a bit of Dresden Files for good measure, but realized it’s been far too long since I had some non-fiction on my reading docket. So I pulled out a book I had started, but never finished… Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution […]
Full Mitten Disclosure
Thank God the post office came through and my package from Terri showed up on my doorstep as promised. Terri’s book is wonderful! It chornicals the history and evolution of a specific brand of Norwegian knitting that centers around a town called Selbu, who created a glorious and varied culture of mitten knitting. The book […]
That Crazy Brigham Young.
So I was checking out the new Winter Knitty and thought this Binary scarf by Christine Dumoulin was totally geeky, therefore I loved it. But I was reading through the pattern and noticed that she suggests that you could knit up a message in Unicode with a link to this page which contains charts of […]
