Ella’s cardigan may be finished before winter is over. I hope so. I had to slow down for a while due to badly tingling hands. It’s best not to push the knitting with numb fingers. But one sleeve is finished and I started the second one. The end is in sight!
Here’s a close-up of the Wheat Ear Rib stitch from Barbara Walker’s A Treasury of Knitting Patterns. I simply added several stitches between the Wheat Ears. It’s an odd little stitch, because you get the feeling it’s off by one. But it isn’t! The two-stitch rib shifts back and forth, depending on which side you are knitting on. So it takes up three stitches, total. It’s easier to see on the wrong side of the work, so I’ll scan the wrong side and post it next time.
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When I came up with the name TextileFusion, it meant using lots of textile techniques and materials together. It took me a while to tumble to this fact (it takes me a while to tumble to lots of things), but TextileFusion includes writing!
I’ve written about textiles and related subjects since 1990. Mostly I write about things I make. For a while now, I have wanted to expand my writing to include books and articles for children. Last summer I took the big step of going to the Highlights Foundation Children’s Writers Workshop. I learned a lot (and bought yarn, too).
Right now, I am writing two stories to enter in the Writers’ League of Texas Manuscript Contest. Writing takes time, and it’s hard for me to put down the yarn and needles to sit at the computer and type. But I’m doing it, slowly and surely, with the encouragement of my family and the invaluable help of the young cats who check on me when I’m working at night. The deadline is the first week in March.
Don’t worry. My main characters are definitely of the fiber persuasion!