Still trying to update the photo album. Here’s what I added today:
This is Daniel’s guernsey that I knit from Debbie Bliss’s Classic Knits For Kids. I knit it around 1997 in hand-spun Falkland wool.
I knit one for Joseph using store bought yarn a few years later.
This is the first Elizabeth Zimmermann sweater I did. It was knit in 1995 using her percentage system which you can find in just about any of E.Z.’s books. It’s knit with Jamieson & Smith’s jumper-weight wool. I love looking at this sweater and remembering how much I love knitting after I discovered the knitting list and Elizabeth Zimmermann.
Ahhh… the Tomten Jacket. Again… Elizabeth Zimmermann. Catching a theme here? This one was knit for Daniel and he wore it for about three years and Joseph wore it for a couple of winters. I can’t remember the wool I used. I think I knit it in 2000 also. This pattern can be found in The Opinionated Knitter or Knitting Workshop.
I met the woman with a ponytail at a spinning meeting I went to a year ago at my friend, Elke’s, house. Elke and I met through Spin Off magazine when we were up in Kitzingen last tour. She and I used to only live 20 minutes apart. She has a great little farm. They are renovating her home and the upstairs is her studio. It’s gorgeous. She even has a dyeing kitchen up there. Now we live about an hour away and it’s been hard to get up there to see her. I need to make a point of contacting her soon.
Thank you for the fab button. I appreciate it. Every little bit we can do helps, I think. Anyways I just wanted to drop by and say Thank you very much. Sending you something via email.
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Dude! That video was awesome – just like when Captain Kangeroo used to visit the production lines 🙂 Makes me want to visit the factory like now.
Also makes me rethink my theory that I can knit just as fast English than any of those Germans can with silly continental – did you see some of the needles flying in that? Might need to practic my technique, eh?