by Suzann Thompson | Nov 6, 2005 | Life, Retro Blog Post
My two-year-old Ella and I ‘play buttons’ a lot. We pour the big jar out onto a blanket, sort the buttons, pick out our favorites, and make up stories about them. The biggest ones are the daddies, the middle-sized ones are the mamas, and the small ones are the...
by Suzann Thompson | Oct 31, 2005 | Crochet, Earthen House, Retro Blog Post
We were at our new house site. The foundation guys were finishing up for the day. “Eva. see what he’s doing with that cord?” I said. My daughter looked. “Yeah,” she said. “What do you call that, when you do it?” I asked....
by Suzann Thompson | Oct 26, 2005 | Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post
Each student in my daughter’s fifth grade class wrote a report on a state. Her state was Alaska, and she wrote about the usual topics. My husband let her in on many of his professional secrets of map-drawing. Naturally, I always try to get her interested in the...
by Suzann Thompson | Oct 22, 2005 | Knitting, Retro Blog Post
Intarsia How-To In intarsia, you knit areas of color, guided by a graph. Depending on how big a color area is, you can use a ball of yarn, a yarn butterfly that you wind on your fingers, or a bobbin. I’m going to call them bobbins, since that is the traditional...
by Suzann Thompson | Oct 20, 2005 | Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Yesterday was marked by three separate magazine encounters. The fall issue of INKnitters arrived, and there was my article about Fire Ant Ranch, with lots of pretty pictures. In a box, set off from the rest of the text, I wrote about the 2005 Taos Wool Festival. Oops!...
