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!
Meet Thor from Iceland modelling his Icelandic sweater I met Thor while shopping in Fred Meyer. I was getting a coffee and so was he. I was fascinated by his sweater/jumper. A familiar Icelandic pattern but the use of the color orange was quite unusual. And the yarn wasn’t fuzzy. It was handknit in colors selected by Thor himself at the Handknitting Association of Iceland. Presumably in Reykjavik. Thor was so pleased with his sweater. It’s a second skin – he wears it all the time. It can keep him cool – or keep him warm. He spends half the year in Seattle and goes back to Iceland for the winter. I was quite fascinated by this because I love Icelandic wool and patterns but have always found the resulting sweaters to be very warm and the Lopi Icelandic wool a bit sticky to knit.
Thor agreed to let me take a photo of his sweater on condition that we take a selfie as well.
Here is the Lopi cardigan that I knit a few years ago. 
Det beste av Hellas, Vi har valgt ut de 10 deiligsts oyene, Norwegian Magazine, courtsey of Edgerdahl
Swedish Book, Folkdrakter och bygdedrakter frahla Sveige back cover of Swedish book
Footsteps through Belmont, a door prize won by my sister Ruth at one her high school reunions, BHS class of 1943, what a treasure, remarks will follow in future blog posts
the frame is the recent acquisition. I’ve known the subject since 1966, this photo was taken at the American International School, Dhaka, Bangladesh, approximately 30 years ago. He looks slightly different now, but still going strong.
Isn’t this the most marvelous image. It is in the current issue of Piecework Magazine, p. 46. It is part of an article by Donna Druchunas. Originally it was the cover of the December 1930 issue of Needlecraft magazine. A woman knitting and skating. In turn, the image used here in Donna’s article in Piecework is courtesy of the Longmont Museum, Longmont Colorado. (Important to give all the credits where credits are due) I think is is a charming image and just conjures up all sorts of ideas and memories. Donna’s article is extremely interesting about historical knitting in the Netherlands. I won’t reveal all the information here but I like Piecework magazine very much and if you like this type of article then Piecework Magazine is the one for you. Lately I have been passing on my collection of weaving and fiber arts magazines but I will hold on to the Piecework issues for a while longer.
Also I want to put in a plug here for a workshop to be given by Franklin of The Panopticon blog. Next Friday night he will be at the Weaving Works here in Seattle giving a workshop on historical knitting patterns.
My knitting efforts of late have turn to socks. Nothing historical or super fancy. Just easy to knit with nice yarns.
easy to knit and easily portable as a compact knitting project.
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Lucy Neatby design blankets
Janet's thread 