Bits & Bobs #2

It's Bit's & Bob's #2

because I think I've used 

that title before.

Short term memory loss

when you are seventy...

Check out the Wabi Sabi

blog. Chris our resident

chemistry major has a

neat post about the properties

of wool.

I bought a copy of

"Piecework" yesterday.

It features Knit and Embroider

Take-Along Projects.

I was smitten with the lace

mitts on the cover.

The articles research each craft

in light of its historical context.

After reading about the legacy

of Norwegian mittens I feel

placed in tradition- one of

 a long line of women

knitting or embroidering or

quilting. 

Knitting a mitten becomes

fiber art... in some instances

museum worthy.

And then I read an article in

O  by Marie Howe

titled "The Hard-Times Companion."

She extols the benefits of reading

Laura Ingalls Wilder with your child

as a hedge against the down turn

in the economy, the winter's cold,

one's propensity to worry.

* Our forty days of rain could

be substituted for winter.

A nod to the law of attraction...

I was connecting my knitting 

to my favorite Y/A novel heroines

just yesterday.

I am four rows into a sock cuff

in lovely shades of blue, pink,

and off-white.

No housework done

just bits and bobs.