KnitLit by Roghaar, Linda -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword Preface: A Conversation Part One: Projects

Names

What’s Your Name? Janet Blowney Knitting Nancy Nancy Chamberlin Big Ugly Rosalia Feinstein

Disasters

Burn Test Jennifer Parko Road Kill Lauren M. Baldwin Never Knit Dog Anne McKee Greater Love Susanna Clarke

Bodacious Knits

Sir Alexandra and the Lobster Twine Kim Brody Salazar We Expected??? Elena Latham Murphy The Checkerboard Vest Susan Crawford Stick to It! Valentina Devine Knitting Rocks Pam Kohan Variegated Yarn Susan Crawford The Hanah Silk Story Hanah Exley

Extreme Knitting

Frozen Toes of Fear Laurie Doran Knit One Red Worm Naomi Dagen Bloom Railroading Can be Hazardous to Your Knitting Karen McCullough Notes from a Nautical Knitter Lucy Neatby

Part Two: Fleece, Fur, and Foreign Lands

Yarns and Needles

Mean Reds Lisa C. Averyhart A Bunch of Little Old Ladies Kay Dorn Silent Knit Shulamith Oppenheim From Kathy’s Kreations Kathy Zimmerman Found Pattern Elaine Eskesen

Mercies for the Children (and the Earth)

Winnie’s Babies Scott Morris Machine-Knit Mercies Christine Cooper The Cap Project Betty Meakim Twenty Years and Still Growing Margaret Klein Wilson

All Creatures Great and Small

Wolf Scarf Luis Tovar Mom, Molly, and Me Bridget Arthur Clancy Winter Birth E. Anne Mazzotta The Consolations of March Margaret Klein Wilson

Peaceable Fleece in Foreign Parts

Peace Fleece Peter Hagerty Sheplova Village Dalis Davidson In Libya Nan Browning, as told to Kathryn Gunn Yungas Road Jonna Gjevre The Old Man’s Cardigan Kathryn Gunn The Road to Mwanza Nicole Pritikin

Part Three: Family and Special Folk

Grandmothers

The Eisenhower Jacket Marisa Labozzetta Dancing with Grandma Elliott Kronenfeld A Twist in the Yarn Zoë Blacksin Red Heart Yarn Zaina Keller Stitched with Love Erica Orloff Grandmothers Are Supposed to Sit and Knit Christine Rusch “You Have to Make Something” Connie Elizabeth Tintinalli

The Reluctant Child

The Afghan Edward Bear Please Don’t Make Me Knit! Tara Cibelli The Knitting Club Frances Lord Corriveau

Aunts and Other Friends

Aunt Ruth Jay Elliott The Yarn that Binds Kay Dorn A Dying Art? Elaine Lang Greenstein A Sister’s Socks Kathryn Gunn Aunt Germaine Jennifer Hope The Challenge of YO Jackie Young Sweater Girls Linda Quigley

The Guys in Our Lives

This Afghan Miriam Lang Warm Neck, Warm Heart Christine G. Hagan Knitting for Love Mary Keenan Revenge: Warm and Custom-Fitted Caroline Laudig Love and Lace Susan Lydon

Part Four: Lives and Souls

Lives

The Baby Blanket Jean Stone What I Knitted Natalie Harwood Canada, East to West Sallie McFague Never Idle Janet Muench Act of Hope, Act of Faith Joanne Seiff Never Say Die Jennifer Colyer Smith My Purple Sweater Faye Whyte Addictions Kirsten Ossorio Meeting the Yarn Again for the First Time Donna Schaper

Winter Things

Winter Things Lucinda J. Garthwaite The Gray Shawl Nancy W. Hall After James Died Harry Kelley

Plying the Spirit

Wild Harvesting Luisa Gelenter Knitting as Spiritual Practice Catherine Hinard A Cloak of Many Colors Jean Hutchinson And the Minister Knit Her Stole Carole Ann Camp A Few Clicks to Spirituality Dan Odegard Tangles Wren Ross The Spinner Molly Wolf

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