This article was in the Seattle Times today. The featured knitter is 100 years old and still going strong, knitting sweaters for babies in need.
This knitter, not quite 100 yet, has reverted to knitting hats. 
I’m out of practice. Could do better!
Janet and Susan outside NW Yarns in Bellingham Washington
Window display, NW Yarns
Colors!
Knitted 3D Piece by Textile Artist Ann Maki – on exhibit at Social Fabric, Bellingham Washington, March 2017
My family tree keeps growing. The ancestor count now stands at 5263.
Is this person knitting her family tree? Makes me think of Madame Defarge in Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities.
I’m actually trying to identify and concentrate on those ancestors who emigrated to America. That number has increased to 333. (Even knitting those names would be a big project!)
Alternatively color bar charts come to mind with different colors representing geographic areas of origin, or destination. Height of each bar representing numbers of people. What about which generation 6th, 7th, 8th, or 9th?
Brown sweater – adding the sleeves
Time to think about finishing this off. I thought I would have much more room for more patterning and colors as in the sweater pictured below.
1936
2016
December 7, 2016
That lanyard around my neck isn’t for a panic button! It’s for my mailbox key!
The sweater I’m wearing is one of my hand knits. The blue wool yarn was purchased in the Aran Islands Ireland. I knit the sweater from the top down following an idea in a knitting book published in Norway in 1975. That was one of the first knitting books I ever purchased. How I found it I do not know but somehow I did when we first moved to Dublin in the late 1960’s.
Here am I age 11 with my father’s mother (Grandma Miller) when she was 85. How will I look at that age – assuming I get there.
On my recent trip to Glastonbury Connecticut I visited 2 yarn stores – Village Wool in Glastonbury and Mystic River Yarns in Mystic Connecticut. I just like looking for yarn and knitting – not sure what project or projects will result. I bought 2 different browns and thought about knitting a sweater. I prefer the “richer” brown – but my sample knitting has too few stitches to be continued as a sweater. The lighter brown sample has enough stitches……so, what should I do? I’m thinking!
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Lucy Neatby design blankets
