Posted in Clogs & Slippers, Knittivism, Uncategorized on May 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
How often is it that you cross paths - even electronically -with someone who shares mulitiple interests? I don’t remember when, but somehow I crossed paths with Naomi, the Little Red Hen. I think it was a few years ago, when I was looking for another infusion of redworms for our composting [...]
Posted in Judaica, My Patterns, My knitting, Uncategorized on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Even the eye of Horace couldn’t see through the Darkness
This week is the Jewish festival of Passover (Pesach, in Hebrew), commemorating the Exodus from Egypt and the liberation of the Israelites from slavery, as narrated in the Hebrew bible (the Five Books of Moses or Torah, known to Christians as the Old Testament). Throughout the [...]
Posted in Knittivism, My Patterns, Uncategorized on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Unable to shake this new passion for cables, I’ve indulged myself completely, and learned that cables can also engage my ongoing interest in peace in the mid-east. How can a knitted cable possibly function ethically or politically? I’ve managed to work cables into some TikkunTree project leaves - here, the use of two [...]
Posted in Charity knitting, My knitting, RS TikkunKnitters, Reversible Knitting, Uncategorized on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Cables and diagonals have been flooding my knitterly imagination and knitting bag lately. Daily rehearsals and/or concerts have meant a fair amount of walking and waiting time, therefore progress on a number of small projects.
On the cable front: my Chevalier Mittens are done, in all their diagonal cable glory! A very, very satisfying knit, [...]
Posted in Knittivism, My Patterns, Uncategorized on February 20, 2008 | No Comments »
What would happen if the moderate majorities in Israel and in Palestine demanded results from their leaders - if, with one voice, they called for ongoing, immediate, and uninterrupted negotiations toward a two state solution, to be reached on or before a given deadline - December 12, 2008? from, One Million Voices
What if moderate Americans [...]
Posted in Brioche, Clogs & Slippers, RS TikkunKnitters, Uncategorized on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
There’s been small amounts of progress on many needlework fronts lately, and closure on a few smaller projects. Flu has kept me indoors more than usual, and there was a work-related trip to Boston, which has meant more knitting. I’ve been switching from project to project, small to large, fine to chunky, straight [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome have slowed down both writing and holiday knitting. When the discomfort became too great, all use of my right hand had to go on hold. So writing here and elsewhere stopped abruptly, the menorah kal stalled, and holiday knitting languished. What first seemed to be a condition produced [...]
Posted in Clogs & Slippers, FOs, Judaica, My Patterns, RS TikkunKnitters, Uncategorized on December 3, 2007 | No Comments »
The past few weeks have been challenging, with intensive rehearsals for performance of Robert Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri (Paradise and the Peri) with the Philadelphia Singers Chorale and the Philadelphia Orchestra. In spite of the hectic schedule, there was time to knit (during preparations for three performances in Philadelphia, and especially during [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Now that we attend the annual Rum & Onions Halloween Contradance sponsored by the Princeton Country Dancers, Halloween is as much an inspiration for our own costumes as it was for our sons when they were small. Last year I knitted 3 Hallowigs (the Knitty.com Hallowig pattern is here) - the 2 hot [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 1, 2007 | No Comments »
We did it! We finished our special sukkah just in time for Sukkot, brilliant weather, company dinners with old friends and neighbors, and community open houses. The booth is even more special than we’d imagined it could be, and the knitted harvest just keeps coming.
The basket is nearly overflowing, and there are still [...]
