Black Purl Magazine: Finding My Roots
My grandmother taught me how to knit before I learned how to read. I’ve read voraciously for my whole life, but I didn’t keep knitting as I grew up. Every year, it seemed, I learned a new craft and left the others behind. Knitting came first, followed by crochet, embroidery, needlepoint, weaving, beading, decoupage, and candle making.
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More about qiviut!
Here's an article about Kelly Bridges from the Elegant Ewe yarn shop in Concord, New Hampshire, and her experiences with qiviut. Like me, she has fallen in love with the fiber and has recently been using qiviut from Greenland.
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SUMMER OF LACE: Filigree Diamonds Afghan by Deborah Robson
Deborah Robson has been working with textiles since before she could read. She spins, weaves, knits, crochets, and otherwise finds endless intrigue in the numbers of things you can do with fiber, and the multitude of ways in which you can manipulate it.
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What’s the difference between your 3 Craftsy Sock Classes?
The new Craftsy.com classes are for creating your own customized socks where you work out the size you need and select your own yarns, colors, and stitches.
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Review of my Sock Class
Review of my Sock Class at Craftsy.com------"Socks are hot! And not just to keep your feet warm" says designer and author Donna Druchunas. Donna has an on-line sock class, Knit Sock Workshop by Crafty Courses. She teaches the toe-up method. You will d...
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FALL COLORS: Lithuanian History
As fall begins - here in Lithuania anyway - I am determined to spend more time writing, less time roaming the streets. I'm sure the weather will cooperate in furthering this plan. And while I am in Lithuania, what better to write about than history? And where better to begin than at the beginning? The beginning of what? Of my attempt to understand.
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