Tantalizing New Knitting Book!
Look at this great photo from 1914! It’s from a new book called People Knitting: A Century of Photographs, by Barbara Levine. I can hardly wait!! It will be released on October 4th. My birthday! 🙂
Tag: books
Instructions for living a life . . . *
I’m trying to live deliberately these days. There’s so much to be swept up in. I know you know what I mean. World things, family things, living life things . . . It can be overwhelming. I’m looking for solid ground. Knitting is solid ground. I’m slowly making progress on the sleeves of …
In honor of the first day of Autumn . . .
In honor of the first day of Autumn, I made blackberry buttermilk cake for lunch. It was this recipe, but with blackberries. It was very good. I was out of town for awhile. There was knitting and beer drinking in a hotel. There was knitting and coffee drinking in a …
Connecting
A few weeks ago Donna Druchunas posted a list of her ten favorite knitting books. One of the books she mentioned was Knitting Heaven and Earth by Susan Gordon Lydon. She said, “This is hands-down my favorite non-pattern book about knitting, and the best writing about knitting I have ever read.” I …
Knit, Read, Work, Knit, Knit
Being absolutely buried in work makes me want to knit and read more than ever. That’s a problem for obvious reasons. I do what I can. Sometimes, I even carry my knitting from room to room, just in case there’s an open moment for a row or two. That happened when …
F is for . . .
Today’s post is brought to you by the letter “F”—as in, finished object, forests, and famous walkers. Here’s the finished object. The Travel Shawl is off the needles! It was a great knit. I’ll say more about it later when I get some better photos, but the bottom line is …
“I love people who harness themselves . . .”
I was enjoying a post on building a handmade wardrobe over at kariebookish.net this morning when I came across the following comment by someone named “jackiemania”: This is something I’m trying to work on (slowly but surely) too. Last week I was sick and I felt so much better because I had …
What did the tree learn from the earth . . .*
Spinzilla 2015 is in the books. Between the alpaca/BFL and the Targhee from Hello Yarn, I ended up with 1,896 yards according to Spinzilla’s method of measuring. They give you special calculations for plying versus spinning singles. I was pretty excited to have exceeded my goal of spinning a mile. …
“dirty little secrets about writing”
Knit Potion the blog is about knitting. However, given that knitting leads to thinking and thinking to knitting, it seems fair to feature the occasional eureka moment related more to thinking than knitting. Or something. Please imagine a graceful transition to the following . . . or take this opportunity …
Read This Book
Ahhhh, how I love weekends in the summer. We’ve got a lot of fun planned—a cookout, hiking, time in the garden, knitting on CeCe . . . Yesterday was full of meetings and work, so the next couple of days will be a welcome break. I don’t have a lot …