From Knit Bits

April 17, 2023

Knitting the National Parks by Nancy Bates

During our time at Fort Frederica National Monument I enjoyed knitting hats from the book “Knitting the National Parks” by Nancy Bates. My friend, Chris Ferlinc, gave me the book for my birthday and I really got into it while I was working at a National Park site. As soon as we got to Fort …

April 14, 2023

Colonial Towels for Sale at Fort Frederica

This year at Fort Frederica National Monument was the year of the colonial towels. Last year the bookstore manager, Ellen Provenzano, started selling some of the towels that I wove while I was demonstrating living history. I only gave her ten towels, but they sold so well that she let me know, before I even …

March 1, 2023

Ranger Jamieson Learns to Weave

During the two months I have been at Fort Frederica National Monument, Ranger Jamieson has been learning to weave. Ranger Jamieson is a young ranger who is trained as an archaeologist. She was hired at Fort Frederica to work with the archaeology program. But she really enjoys the living history program as well and has …

February 3, 2023

Yesterdays Ewes Yarn Shop in London, Ohio

In my continuing quest to find a great local yarn shop near me, I visited Yesterdays Ewes in London, Ohio. London is about halfway between Westerville and Dayton, so it isn’t really close. It is too far to go for a regular knit night or to grab a ball of yarn. But if I can …

January 20, 2023

2022 Knitting Update: Coming Off the Needles

I wanted to showcase a few of the things that I knitted by giving you a 2022 knitting update. I haven’t been knitting as much lately because I spend most of my free time writing or weaving. But knitting is the perfect accessory for football season and so I managed to get some projects done. …

October 18, 2022

Nautical Yarn in Ludington, Michigan

After hiking to the lighthouse, we decided to check out the Nautical Yarn shop in Ludington and walk around downtown a little. Tom wasn’t a big fan of my third yarn shop visit in a week, but we explained that Sandy needed some yarn. Plus, Sandy had never been in a local yarn shop. Her …

October 5, 2022

Knit and Spin in Montague, Michigan

Another great reason to stop in Montague, Michigan, is to visit the Knit and Spin. Ever since my local yarn shop in Columbus closed, I stop at all the local yarn shops I can find. I don’t need that much yarn, but I try to find something to buy to support a local, in-person shop. …

September 23, 2022

Waverly Stone Gastropub and Garen Huis Yarns

On the day we visited Windmill Island Gardens, Tom and I ate at Waverly Stone Gatropub and visited Garen Huis Yarns. Although Tom and I enjoyed Windmill Island Gardens very much, we were done there by noon. So we decided to ride the tandem to downtown Holland, Michigan, and check it out. We wanted to …

July 25, 2022

2022 Weaving Update from All Over

After I wrote about teaching Grace to weave, I realized that I had not written a 2022 weaving update. In fact, I didn’t write a 2021 weaving update. So you haven’t been able to see the beautiful things I’ve been creating on my two looms. You did, of course, see the overshot items I made …

July 19, 2022

Teaching Grace to Weave

I have been teaching Grace to weave. Last fall I offered to teach my niece, Grace Clymer, how to weave. We didn’t get very far last fall because our schedules had a hard time meshing. Grace only lives 30 minutes from us, but someone has to bring her up to my house and we all …

That peanut shape might be useful here but Frederica and Sea Island may be too big.

Wow Karen! What a great narrative on the topic. My kids in NOLA participated. We have a big flag flying…

Hey ive been struggling with this. Thanks for the insight

What an interesting connection! I'm so glad you were able to add to the museum's collection.

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