With my research in Lithuania I have found many more examples of old mittens, gloves, and wristers than I have socks.
Category Archives: Knitting
My nieces were visiting this weekend and I put together this pattern as they wanted something to keep their legs warm during the winter.
Even though Lithuania is a relatively small country, about the same size as West Virginia, it has five ethnographic regions. Each region has a unique natural environment and historical economic base, the people speak a distinct dialect, and – most importantly to us – there were interesting differences in traditional knitting patterns and clothing styles […]
Whatever you pay attention to is what you will notice. I pay attention to knitting, history, travel, and writing. And that leads me to notice many interesting people. Sometimes I find them through intentional searches, and sometimes I just stumble upon them. I don’t remember exactly how I met Susan Crawford, but a few years […]
You know I have 3 sock knitting classes on Craftsy, don’t you? I know a lot of my students have been in all of my classes and if that’s you and you’re chomping at the bit for more cool sock techniques, I have just the thing for you! Lara Neel, aka Math4Knitters, has a brand new […]
TOMORROW, Lithuanian Knitting: Continuing Traditions launches on Pubslush! I can’t wait until you can go there and join in the fun and pick your rewards and contributions. It’s going to be so much fun. The campaign page is available for preview here and will go live for contributions tomorrow, April 15th, 2015. A short preview of […]
On my first trip to Europe, I went to England and Lithuania. This post is about how those two places connected for me. I had a fabulous time in England, but Lithuania had a much bigger impact on me. All of these trips have fed into the depth of Lithuanian Knitting: Continuing Traditions, even though not all of […]
I’ve been blogging for a long time. I started in 2003 but I didn’t blog about Lithuania or start working on Lithuanian Knitting: Continuing Traditions until 2007. Here’s another of my early posts. It’s about two knitting books I purchased and what they made me think about when I was looking at these books. I learned so […]
I’ll be doing a few posts about knitted-on borders for shawls. This is the first part of that series. I’m also working on a little tutorial on how you know if you’ll be joining the border on the RS or WS rows, whether you need a setup row, and if you should have RS or […]
In Stories In Stitches 4: Knitting and Spirit, guest designer and writer Susan Santos introduced us to mandalas in art, spirituality, and knitting with a fabulous essay and a knitted mandala blanket. I recently had a chat with her to find out more about her interest in mandalas as well as her background and projects […]