Lynne Kiesling The U.S. Olympic Committee is starting to beat the drum for the London 2012 Olympics, 36 days to go! But their long-standing aggressive enforcement of their “Olympic” trademark has alienated an unlikely group of potential Olympics fans and TV viewers: knitters. Yes, knitters (of which I am one). At the knitting social network …
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Lynne Kiesling Back in March I mentioned that one of my favorite Steelers from the 1970s, Randy Grossman, is also a knitter. Now I find out via this New York Times article that actor John Glover, who is currently on Broadway in Waiting For Godot, is also a knitter! The picture of him accompanying the …
Lynne Kiesling As a child growing up in Pittsburgh in the mid-1970s, I couldn’t help being a sports fan, including football. One of my favorite Steelers from the mid-70s was tight end Randy Grossman. Agile, fast, and a joy to watch. Imagine my joy now as I find out that he is a fellow knitter! …
Lynne Kiesling I spent the weekend with two friends at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, the second largest sheep-based livestock and fiber festival in the U.S. It’s an overwhelming combination of county fair (complete with fair food), livestock show, livestock market, and fiber festival. It’s all about turning this into this And yes, I …
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Lynne Kiesling I enjoyed our visit, although I don’t think I could have afforded to stay much longer! Even a Swedish gentleman sitting with us at the conference gala dinner said that Swedes think Iceland is expensive, and that’s saying something! This is my favorite picture of downtown Reykjavik (taken from the top of the …
Lynne Kiesling There’s this really great outfit called Blue Moon Fiber Arts that makes some of the most gorgeous hand-dyed yarn for knitting that you can imagine; gorgeous yarn born out of the vision of one woman. I bought my first Blue Moon yarn, a variegated rayon in amazing shades of olive, a year and …
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Lynne Kiesling Woman does not live by economics alone (although sometimes I come pretty close!). I made this sweater: This is the popular Rogue hoodie, which lots of folks have been knitting over the past two years. I started this in October, and finished it on New Year’s Day. Yes, it was a lot of …
Lynne Kiesling OK, I’m throwing my knitting lot in with two teams, fair isle knit team and team Chicago: For you non-knitters, here’s the challenge: cast on a new project that stretches your skills during the opening ceremonies, and finish it by the time the Olympics end. My stretch: multi-color fair isle, which I’ve never …
Lynne Kiesling As you would expect in a large city, Manhattan has a fair number of good yarn stores: Purl in Soho, The Yarn Co. on Broadway at 82nd St., String on Madison Avenue at 78th St., Downtown Yarns on Avenue A, Knitting 321 on E. 75th St., Gotta Knit! on 6th Avenue, etc. A …
Lynne Kiesling My friend Knitress was right on both counts: Martha’s poncho was crocheted, and made from Lion Brand’s Homespun yarn. The Lion Brand website has a crochet pattern for it up now, and will have a knit one up soon. Sorry, Manolo! Personally, this design is too boho for my taste. But I can …
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