This was in the Oregonian today. Here’s the contents of the paragraph pointing to the sweater: “Althea Crome of Indiana knit a starry sweater and teensy striped five-finger gloves for Coraline. Crome knits with needles not much thicker than a human hair. It takes her anywhere from six weeks to design and knit her conceptual [...]

Each and every knitter has her or his own reason or reasons for knitting. Mine stem from my childhood. I grew up in a very large family, the second of eight children. Needless to say my mother, who is from Germany, didn’t  have much time to spend with each of us individually. My best memories [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } alice and her finger puppet, originally uploaded by alicethelma. We had a break in the weather so I took the gang out to our old stomping grounds at Reed College for a photo shoot. [...]