by Suzann Thompson | Aug 31, 2007 | Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
These breezy mornings are good for knitting in the tree house, while Ella plays with kittens or organizes parties with her imaginary friends. Today I was hurriedly knitting another seamless argyle, so I could help Linda Urban celebrate the publication of her book, A...
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 29, 2007 | Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops
The Dallas Handknitters Guild meets Tuesday evening, September 4, and the speaker is going to be me! I so enjoy speaking to that group of people. The topic for the evening is Very Variegated, which is about how to use multicolor yarn to its best advantage. In...
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 13, 2007 | Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
We tagged along with my mom to the German Texan Heritage Society meeting last weekend. The girls and I took a couple of hours to shop at the venerable Yarn Barn of San Antonio, at 4300 McCullough. The Yarn Barn has an impressive selection of needlework books, old and...
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 7, 2007 | Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
In 1949, my grandmother gave my mother a book for her birthday. It was the first craft book I ever saw as a kid. The title is Gestaltende Hände, ein Werkbuch für Mädchen, by Hildegard Fochs. That means Forming, Shaping, Modeling, Designing or maybe Creative Hands, a...
by Suzann Thompson | Jun 2, 2007 | Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops
You’ve heard of mosaic knitting. Barbara Walker coined the term to describe a kind of slip stitch color knitting, and she developed a method for charting her designs. She charted many geometric designs that really do look like borders on mosaic floors, with...
by Suzann Thompson | May 20, 2007 | Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops
Way back… No. Way, way, waaaaay back, I went to the first ever TKGA (The Knitting Guild of America) convention in Dallas, Texas. It must have been in 1985. I took classes from knitting legends, Alice Starmore (Fair Isle Techniques), Barbara Walker (Mosaic Knitting),...
