Vintage Needlecrafts Pick of the Week: Fishermen’s Sweaters
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This week’s pick: Fishermen’s Sweaters: Twenty Exclusive Knitwear Designs for All Generations by Alice Starmore Source: Gifted to me by one of my students who found it for $1 in a thrift shop. Publication date: 1993 Status: Reprinted by Collins & Brown in 2010. Condition: Mild wear on dust jacket. Craft: Knitting In her introduction, Alice Starmore explains that ”knitting fisher ganseys entirely in the [...]
Revitalized and Blog Hub Swap, Day 1
This weekend, I participated in the Craft Yarn Council Certified Instructor’s Program in Knitting. This 3-day, 15 hour workshop was led by the fabulous Arnetta Kenney (who was also the instructor in 2007 when I went through the certification training for crochet). She is a wonderful teacher, who is very generous with her feedback and [...]
