Elizabeth Zimmermann
Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gathered together... It's something to celebrate-clothes made in love and service, something women have always done.”
― Anne Bartlett, Knitting
With the autumn upon us, I'm now trying to get some of the projects done which I meant to have had finished by now... oops. Oh, well. I sewed this baby quilt for my newest niece a little while ago, but have yet to deliver it; I forgot to take it with me the last couple of times I was seeing my sister and her family. One of these days. I had started one of these socks ages ago, but had put it aside to work on other things. Since we were all travelling to New Brunswick a couple of weeks ago in a van for the Ladies' Retreat, I decided to bring along my half finished sock to work on. Between the trip there and back, I managed to complete the entire pair. Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either. Elizabeth Zimmermann I knit this hat off and on over a few days; it's actually a very easy pattern... you just have to keep increasing your stitches on one side of your work and decreasing on the other, then sew the two sides together to make the swirl. I knit the rib, sewed the sides together, gathered the top, and made the pom pom while watching The Talk of the Town, a 1942 film starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur. “And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history. Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gathered together... It's something to celebrate-clothes made in love and service, something women have always done.” ― Anne Bartlett, Knitting When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork. -Stephanie Pearl-McPhee This is true, of course, but mostly I'm just knitting, trying to get gifts done for family members. Oh, and I'll have more to say about The Talk of the Town later, but here's a scene from the movie:
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