It took us two days to drive over the slow roads from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Junction City, Kansas, to get our brakes replaced. As I wrote yesterday, we took time to smell the sorghum and also read every billboard. About an hour away from Junction City we saw this sign: “Second Friendliest Yarn …
From Knit Bits
Navajo-Churro Sheep and Navajo Weaving
As I mentioned yesterday, today I am going to write about Navajo-Churro Sheep and the Navajo Weaving produced from their wool. I got interested in Navajo Weaving while I was at Pipe Spring. Lots of visitors would tell me they had watched someone weaving on a Navajo Loom. At Pipe Spring I used a floor …
Weaving Southwest in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico
Today I return to the southwest and some of our travels out there. We saw lots of things while traveling back to Ohio in October. Weaving Southwest is one of the places I want to be sure to mention before being done with New Mexico. I first heard of Weaving Southwest when I was learning …
Scarf, Shawl, and Socks: Other Knitted Projects
Yesterday I wrote about the sweater I knitted for my dad for Christmas. Today I am highlighting some other projects that I knitted during the time I was working on the sweater. I made a scarf, a shawl, and socks. It seems I only knit things that start with “s”. First, here are a pair …
Sweater for My Father, Knitted with Yarn I Spun
I haven’t posted about any knitted projects for a while because I was working on a big project and didn’t want to give anything away. But now that the sweater is out of the gift box, I can reveal it and the other things I knitted in the meantime. Today’s post is about the big …
Forgiving Ourselves as We Forgive Others
I have been working on a special knitting project and it is coming along nicely. I am very pleased with my progress on it and how it looks. Unfortunately, I noticed this morning that I missed a crossover in the intricate cable pattern about 10 rows back. Now the question of the day is: do …
Kromski Minstrel: My New Spinning Wheel
Once we got home from our adventure to Frankfort, Kentucky, I could’t wait to put my new spinning wheel together. Mom and Dad dropped us off and Tom and Dad carried the wheel over to our RV site. Then Mom and Dad headed home and Tom and I went to work on my beautiful Kromski …
Woolery in Frankfort, Kentucky
While we were in Ohio, we took a couple of days for an adventurous trip to Frankfort, Kentucky. Mom and Dad donated the car and Tom drove us south. We stopped at William Howard Taft National Historic Site in Cincinnati (read about it here). Then we moved on to Frankfort for the raison d’etre of the trip: …
Knitting for a Good Cause Keeps Me Busy
I have been knitting for 40 years. That seems like a really long time, but I don’t consider myself an expert knitter. I belong to a Facebook group called “Addicted to Knitting” and I feel like a beginner when I see some of the things other people knit. I knit a lot for my family, …
Spinning My Wheels for Living History
I learned how to use a spinning wheel last year at San Juan National Historical Park. When I did, I knew that I would be coming back to Fort Frederica which had a broken spinning wheel. So, when Tom and I came back to Fort Frederica this year, our first order of business was fixing …