Category: Knitting in literature
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Reading in 2017 – first quarter
Rather than repeating the list of reading aims for the year each time, I have built a page that I can keep updated throughout the year. There are probably more books that I have read or re-read since January, but I haven’t been keeping a very effective list. This is just what I can find…
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Fictitious Knitting
When I first started blogging here, one of the things I intended to do was to keep track of where I found mentions of knitting in literature. I even have a special category of posts just for this. Perhaps I’ve been knitting more than I’ve been reading because I haven’t really found many… until now.…
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Yarn along
I’ve discovered the yarn along on the blog Small Things, so I thought I’d join in this week. Here is my picture of what I am reading and knitting. The socks are still the stage 1 socks from Tour de Sock, although you can see some progress from the last post. I’m now up to…
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Little Women Knitting
As promised, here are the knitting quotes from Little Women. They are taken from the Kindle edition, which also contains Good Wives in the same volume. The first one, from the very beginning: page 4 It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boy’s games and work and manners! I can’t get…