One last check of the news before I go to bed tonight and the front page of The Guardian (online) has photos from past Holi celebrations.
I’m not sure how I’ve managed to entirely miss Holi, the Festival of Colors, until this evening. It is a welcoming of springtime by a number of Eastern religions, the [...]
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More knitting soldiers! You may be asking yourself, “Why is this important?” Well, war and craft are two things throughout history found in almost every culture, and each of them got more or less “assigned” to a particular gender along the way. Women, the childbearers, needed to stay close to home to watch their babies, [...]
A long time ago, my always intrepid friend Muffy Bolding wrote her favorite poem was “60 Yard Pass,” by Charles Bukowski. Bukowski not being one of my favorite poets, I was at the time, unfamiliar with his work.
Ever since then, “60 Yard Pass,” has been on a desktop sticky just within a second’s reach. Today [...]
Ok, so I totally have a new dream. To take my knitting on a trip to Indonesia. We could drive around, go to workshops, see a concert, pay some road tolls. Not only would it be awesome, but then my knitting could trade stories with the knitting from this video.
The shots of the knitting [...]
When I was in Portland this spring, not only did I see some of my favorite crafty friends, but I also had the opportunity to visit a PDX crafty institution, The Knittn Kitten, an amazing vintage fabric and craft store! Not only are the supplies also, but so are the mother and daughter team that [...]
