Last summer I saved two items to share with you, and just today, they turned up in a stack of paper. Yep, that’s how far behind I am in filing stuff. Who wants to sort papers when one could be knitting or crocheting?!
Thing One is Knit Picks’s sock yarn dye blanks. If you love multicolor, variegated sock yarn, but want the stripes on your socks to match, this is for you!
You buy the blank, which is an un-dyed machine-knit piece of knitting, made with the yarn doubled. You dye the piece using the step-by-step instructions provided by Knit Picks. Because the yarn is double, you end up with two lengths of yarn that are identically dyed. Then you knit your two socks as you unravel the dyed sock blank. They match!
It’s the most clever knitting-related product I have seen in a long, long time, and Knit Picks is where I saw it first.
Thing Two regards Dr. Michael DeBakey, the famous heart surgeon, who died last summer. Thomas Kleinworth wrote an article about his memories of Dr. DeBakey in the July 21, 2008 issue of the Austin American-Statesman. As a boy, Dr. DeBakey learned how to knit, crochet, and sew from his mother. Kleinworth guesses that the young Michael DeBakey asked his mother to teach him, adding that he had an “unquenchable thirst for knowledge.”
Just another wildly successful person who knits and crochets! Don’t they all? Well, if they don’t, they should.
Thanks to my dad for bringing this to my attention.