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The knitting experience in culture, history, and daily life. Knitting like it’s 1995. Asymp; 1 Comment. When I think of my fall from prodigious, devoted knitter to inveterate web-surfer, I recall an essay by Rebecca Solnit. “In or around June 1995 human character changed again,” she writes in her August 2013 essay. What a different world from today: we might as well have been driving horse-drawn buggies! So little leisure time for making handcrafts. It’s necessary to have. 8221; (my emphasis). The th...
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Minnesota | The Knitted Word
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The knitting experience in culture, history, and daily life. Seeing spring, anticipating summer. Asymp; 2 Comments. Downtown Bloomington, tree cozy in perfectly fitted lace and waiting for warmer weather. As my neighbors and friends here in southern Indiana have balked at the cold weather this March and April – snow the first week of April! Spring itself is anticipation for summer, is it not? В то время я гостила на земле…. O, не приближайся.Только издалека. Хочется любить мне свет очей твоих. В сладостн...
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American history | The Knitted Word
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The knitting experience in culture, history, and daily life. One special, hand-made book. Asymp; 2 Comments. July 8, 2013). Lepore, a regular contributor to. The story in this. Article is not solely about Jane’s book of rags and linen, however, as much as I would love to find out more details about the book itself. I wonder about Jane’s resourcefulness – was it common to the era, especially for a poor, uneducated family? Why didn’t she use the paper that she used for her letters to her brother? When my s...
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Weaving | The Knitted Word
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The knitting experience in culture, history, and daily life. Home is where the heart is spun. Asymp; Leave a comment. Blue flax flowers in bloom at Mount Vernon, George Washington’s plantation home outside of Alexandria, VA. When my six-year-old daughter visits a friend’s house for the first time, she clings to me until she can muster up the courage to ask the most important item on her agenda, expressed in a shy whisper: “. I want to see her room. Latvian folk dance ensemble, hanging up on her closet do...
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Home is where the heart is spun | The Knitted Word
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The knitting experience in culture, history, and daily life. Home is where the heart is spun. Asymp; Leave a comment. Blue flax flowers in bloom at Mount Vernon, George Washington’s plantation home outside of Alexandria, VA. When my six-year-old daughter visits a friend’s house for the first time, she clings to me until she can muster up the courage to ask the most important item on her agenda, expressed in a shy whisper: “. I want to see her room. Latvian folk dance ensemble, hanging up on her closet do...
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One special, hand-made book | The Knitted Word
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The knitting experience in culture, history, and daily life. One special, hand-made book. Asymp; 2 Comments. July 8, 2013). Lepore, a regular contributor to. The story in this. Article is not solely about Jane’s book of rags and linen, however, as much as I would love to find out more details about the book itself. I wonder about Jane’s resourcefulness – was it common to the era, especially for a poor, uneducated family? Why didn’t she use the paper that she used for her letters to her brother? You are c...
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Between Two Suns | The Knitted Word
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The knitting experience in culture, history, and daily life. Asymp; 2 Comments. This geographic and political situation of the Baltic countries brings to mind a catchy song by the Latvian rock band Prāta Vētra (Brainstorm), called “ Starp Divām Saulēm. Lai no kādām tālēm nācis, Liekas tikko elpot sācis. Starp divām saulēm izvēlēties. Virs mums ir divas, divas debesis. Pa vienām ienākt, otrām atdoties,. Vienām tuvoties, no otrām izvairīties. Virs mums ir divas, divas debesis. Virs mums ir divas zvaigznes.
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Women’s history | The Knitted Word
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The knitting experience in culture, history, and daily life. One special, hand-made book. Asymp; 2 Comments. July 8, 2013). Lepore, a regular contributor to. The story in this. Article is not solely about Jane’s book of rags and linen, however, as much as I would love to find out more details about the book itself. I wonder about Jane’s resourcefulness – was it common to the era, especially for a poor, uneducated family? Why didn’t she use the paper that she used for her letters to her brother? Sew your ...
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Hyvää päivää! | The Knitted Word
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The knitting experience in culture, history, and daily life. Asymp; 4 Comments. That’s “Good day! 8221; in Finnish. Growing up in my small hometown in northern Minnesota, Finnish influence was a quiet but certain presence in our lives: our neighbors took saunas, in school we celebrated St. Urho for driving the grasshoppers out of Finland, we told Finnish jokes, and our Finnish-heritage teachers made us learn how to spell their sharp, rolling long last names (can you spell Koskiniemi? Summer, though, I sa...
