CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION:
WELCOME

CHAPTER 1:
MOTHERHOOD

Meera’s Blanket

The Knitting Lesson

READALONG: Safe Return

But She Doesn’t Have Any Underpants

My Mother, Lillian Edwards

The Memory Skein

CHAPTER 2:
HOME

Here Lives a Knitter

READALONG: A Chair for My Mother

Untangling

READALONG: East of the Sun and West of the Moon

The Knitter and the Woodpecker

Only Wool

READALONG: The Settlement Cookbook

CHAPTER 3:
COMMUNITY

First Socks

READALONG: Chicken Man

Home Ec Workshop & The Mystery of the Indian Slipper

The Master Knitter

Fae Ridge Farm Knitters

READALONG: Little Heathens

A Quickening of the Heart

CHAPTER 4:
LEGACY

Yarn Began It All

READALONG: Knitting for Peace

Mitten Ladies

READALONG: The Endless Steppe

Golden Hands

Iowa Knitter

We’re Still Knitting

Loops to the End

READALONG: The Opinionated Knitter

ABBREVIATIONS

SPECIAL TECHNIQUES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS