Comments on: Sharing a Love of Knitting

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:20:51 +0000

My favorite knitter is by far my BFF Becca We bond over a shared love of the craft and both have very different loves/strengths – I’m very much a sweater and colorwork knitter whereas she’s a shawl/lace knitter and boy can she do lace! She made me this GORGEOUS Haruni shawl out of hot pink lace for my birthday last year, it is still one of my favorite knitted items!!!

By: Angie

Angie — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:24:44 +0000

My favorite knitter was the lady who showed me the way. A wonderful coworker, she has been knitting for most of 40 years. When I first picked up the sticks, she was knitting a beautiful baby ensemble made with the prettiest baby yellow. She had these tiny booties edged in white and a bonnet to match. And, the cutest baby cardigan I’ve ever seen. Right then and there, I knew I wanted to create beautiful things that I could wear.

By: retired head elf

retired head elf — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:15:49 +0000

Julia!! So happy you finished. Did Donna??
I still have a major Wendy blanket on the needles…you motivated me to pick it up again…although I’m scared since I don’t know where I left off..

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:13:35 +0000

My Favorite knitter is now deceased but she was a multi-talented lady who did beautiful things with yarn. Her daughter was in my class in high school and she always had matching sweaters and skirts made by her mother. The sweaters were often trimmed with fabric from the skirt. She was always such an inspiration to me.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:39:09 +0000

My favorite person that I taught to knit was my Mom. She made a couple of knitting articles but the most impresive was a sweater she made for my Dad when they were overseas in Algeria in the 1980′s.

By: Seanna Lea

Seanna Lea — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:01:41 +0000

While my mom knits, it isn’t her most consistent hobby (that is probably painting). After that, I’d probably have to say Maggie from my knitting group. She is always saying she isn’t very good, but she has such enthusiasm and bites off so much. She’s proof positive that no knitter should say no way to a project just because it looks hard!

By: Knitting Daughter

Knitting Daughter — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:31:37 +0000

Thank you all for the nice comments! It was a fun project to knit and one I hope to do again. It was a good project to branch out of what I normally do. I recommend it to anyone

Paulette: I used Cascade Heritage Sock – Thunder. One day back in St. Louis, I walked by it and couldn’t resist! I love the color and the way it knits up.

By: pam

pam — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:03:29 +0000

my 11 year old neice. i visited with my maine family on saturday adn when they broke out the iphones & computers to various things, i broke out my knitting, as did Isabelle, and we had a nice little knitting date.

By: Martina

Martina — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 16:17:04 +0000

My grandmother taught me to knit when I was a small child, but I didn’t continue with it. I went with crewel embroidery and needlepoint for decades. My best buddy Kathy started knitting as she neared retirement and her gift of a hand knit got me thinking about it again. Five years later and I can’t imagine how I could stay sane without my needles and yarn! It’s gotten me through a series of extremely difficult times. My daughter, who benefits equally from my garment production, says ‘this knitting thing is really working for me Mom!’

By: katiedo

katiedo — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 16:07:18 +0000

I have 2 favorite knitters – my mom & my 6 year old granddaughter Sofia. Mom & I can talk on the phone for hours about different patterns, what we want to make next, take classes together & wishing we could knit faster. Sofia is such a hoot – she’s been knitting on the same purple scarf (yarn she got at the Loopy Ewe when you were still in the Lou) & has about 10″ done. She already has a stash that is quite admirable. She has one bag just filled with the tootsie rolls that come with our orders. The 3 of us have a yearly tradition of doing the summers last blast yarn crawl. This year So will be on vacation & will have only the last day to do it. She gave mom & me our marching orders – we are to do only the 4 far away ones the other 6 we have to wait for her to get back. She thinks she’s going to buy some yarn other than pink (read Bama is going to buy her yarn other than pink). She sweetly reminded her parents that they have to get home Saturday cause she has plans for Sunday. It’s so fun to sit & knit with the 2 of them Mom & I just crack up listening/watching Sofia knit with us!!!