Archive for October, 2009

Questions from Madison

Friday, October 16th, 2009

I’m doing my schtick in Madison, WI next month, and this is the littl qustionaire they sent me, for he newsletter.  Ulp.

MKG Profile Questions                                 

 

 
1. What role does knitting play in your life?
2. Describe your first knitting experience.
3. How did you learn to knit?
4. What’s your favorite pattern?
5. Who’s your favorite designer?
6. What’s your favorite knitting tool (besides needles, of course) and why?
7. What knitting gadget do you wish someone would invent?
8. What’s your all-time favorite yarn? Why?
9. Describe your oldest uncompleted project.
10. Talk about either your worst knitting project or the most obvious mistake you have ever made knitting.
11. Describe the skill are you proudest of having mastered.
12. Do you have a yarn stash?  If so how big of a container will it take to hold it?
13. Who do you knit for the most?
14. Circular or straight? Defend your choice.
15. What advice do you have for fellow knitters?
16. Are you a process knitter or a product knitter? Why do you think that is?
17. Where is the weirdest place you have ever knit?
18. What project do you currently have on your needles?
19. Do you have a best knitting memory?  How about a worst?
20. Have you ever smuggled yarn in to the house and were you caught?  Can you describe the incident?

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Zomg, I’m so glad it’s cooler.

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Summer is wasted, if you’re a knitter.  Many years I can spin, but this year was just a bust.  Plain and simple.  And that’s not good when you’ve got a book to put out.

So it’s Back To Work week chez Shea!  Previews of what’s in store.

First, the Eskimo.   This sweater is in my upcoming republished book “Norwegian Knitting Designs” by noted Norwegian knitting expert Annichen Sibbern Bohn.  (If you’re a fan of traditional knitting, you should learn more about her.  Here’s a biographical article I wrote for Piecework, although they edited it heavily.  FWIW.)  The earliest publication I have found for this sweater was in 1930, in URD Magazine.  Annichen designed it based on traditional Greenlander costume, which included an elaborate beaded yoke.  I have some intriguing theories about this sweater, and hopefully Piecework will publish them, after I’ve put out the book.

Ok.  Eskimo.

Yarn is my beloved Jo Sharp DK.  This sample differs slightly from the written pattern in construction.   I found myself getting all EZ without thinking about it.  I’ll explain later.

And remember these?  Granny squares made from thift store white and grey wool yarn, dyed all with onion skins and a variety of mordants?  It’s olivey orangey goldy goodness, in a good way.

They’re finally becoming this.

 

Next post, I’ll show you more book progress.  Daria, your sweater is going to Norway for embellishment.  :)

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