Category Archives: People

Dallas

Yes, I love to go to Dallas!  I have been teaching for the Dallas Handknitters Guild off and on for 20 years now.  What great friends I have there!  Class was held at The Knitting Fairy, a shop owned by … Continue reading

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Mountain Knits and Pearls

I drove down to Stroudsburg, PA in April–such a lovely ride, even though the leaves weren’t out yet.  Joanne Deardorff owns Mountain Knits and Pearls, a yarn shop with beads!  She had just finished renovating her space, and has a … Continue reading

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The Dallas Handknitters Guild

Now here’s a guild I have a history with!  I started teaching for the Dallas guild back in 1993 I think, before my book came out. And I taught at least one, if not two, workshops for the guild for … Continue reading

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Vesterheim, part 2

On Sunday, the Knit-In continued.  Katie Carpenter had created a pillow project based on one of Ann Swanson’s charts she had devised several years before.  I happily knitted away on that as did many others.  In the afternoon, Janine Kosel … Continue reading

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Vesterheim: The Norwegian-American Museum, Part One

I have not been to Vesterheim Museum in Decorah, Iowa since 1997, when I first visited to “practice” researching before my first big trip to Scandinavia.  So it was very thrilling and quite an honor to be asked to teach … Continue reading

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Hard Crochet

When I taught at Fiber College in September, 2011, held at Oceanfront Campground in Searsport, Maine on Penobscot Bay, I was totally thrilled to meet the author of a book I bought many years ago (Hard Crochet by Mark Dittrick, 1978).  I … Continue reading

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The Entrelac Queen

I think it’s fun to be in a blog roll, but I even like it better when I can host someone myself.  I thought you might be interested in how my dear friend Gwen Bortner ended up doing an Entrelac … Continue reading

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Knitters Connection

Knitters Connection was a lot of fun.  I taught for three of the four days.  It is always after TNNA, held in the Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio as well.  It turns out I am Amy Detjen’s FAVORITE KNITTER!  I … Continue reading

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