by Suzann Thompson | Mar 28, 2005 | Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Last two nights, after everyone else was in bed, I worked on the Salt and Pepper Jacket, accompanied by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, read by Stephen Fry. The package says he is the Potter-perfect reader, and I agree. The weather has been chilly here, so I...
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 24, 2005 | Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
These beauties came in the mail yesterday. I can’t wait to get them around my needles. Got some sample color cards, too. So instead of knitting on the Salt and Pepper Jacket, I sat down with the sample cards and dreamed up possible projects. I really like the...
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 22, 2005 | Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
I’m making a girl’s jacket with Lion Cotton, “Salt and Pepper,” which is black and white with very short gray transitions between the two. Here’s a sleeve. When the first white section came along, I just knitted it. But when the second...
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 6, 2005 | Art Quilt, Crochet, Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
When I was a kid, my dad, Alan Thompson, would shake his head and say, “There’s a right way, a wrong way, and a Suzie way.” I sure didn’t want to do anything the wrong way, and usually we already knew how to something the so-called right way. I...
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 3, 2005 | Crochet, Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
“Hurray! I can finally post to WordPress.” That was what I wrote in my first ever TextileFusion blog post in March 2005, and I feel the same way in March 2021, after a year of my website and blog being lost in the ether. Thank you, Jungo Solutions, for...
