Last night Steve and I watched a lenghty biography of Eleanor Roosevelt on PBS. All the amazing and fascinating facts about this awesome woman's life aside, I noticed that in image after image, she was knitting. In one segment, I think it was a sock. There were at least three pointy DPs visible.
When the vote was finally taken to accept the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Dec. 10, 1948, she is sitting in the US Delegate's seat, knitting.
Eleanor Roosevelt has long been a personal hero of mine, and of countless other women. Now I have one more reason to love her.
Knitting for Victory
Monday, January 23, 2006
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Even if they win, they lose
A sewing store in NYC has started a fight with thousands of knitters they have never met over a few words we've been enjoying for years. Many of us are "mad as Hell, and we're not gonna take it any more." Read the story here.
What follows is the e-mail I sent to the offending company. I copied it to knitty.com, Vogue Knitting, Knit n Style, and TKGA -- whoever had an e-dress I could find.
Dear Sewing Store,
I was stunned and angry to learn of your claim to the use of the words "Stitch 'n Bitch" as used by informal knitting groups across the country (possibly all over the knitting world).
Your shop has nothing to do with knitting. It appears that you added knitting to your descriptions after the term became popular. You don't sell yarn and you don't have any knitting classes listed on your Website. None of your team members are knitters. Your motives are suspect and your actions reprehensible.
There are more of us than there are of you, and we spell it differently, and we don't use the word "cafe," either with or without the accented "é."
Have you any idea how much bad press you are getting from this dispute? Even if you win, you have lost.
Just after I hit "send," I scared myself, because I bravely and/or stupidly signed my real name. Ah, well.
What follows is the e-mail I sent to the offending company. I copied it to knitty.com, Vogue Knitting, Knit n Style, and TKGA -- whoever had an e-dress I could find.
Dear Sewing Store,
I was stunned and angry to learn of your claim to the use of the words "Stitch 'n Bitch" as used by informal knitting groups across the country (possibly all over the knitting world).
Your shop has nothing to do with knitting. It appears that you added knitting to your descriptions after the term became popular. You don't sell yarn and you don't have any knitting classes listed on your Website. None of your team members are knitters. Your motives are suspect and your actions reprehensible.
There are more of us than there are of you, and we spell it differently, and we don't use the word "cafe," either with or without the accented "é."
Have you any idea how much bad press you are getting from this dispute? Even if you win, you have lost.
Just after I hit "send," I scared myself, because I bravely and/or stupidly signed my real name. Ah, well.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
The Incomparable EZ
Franklin Habit and Tricky Tricot have started a Knitters Almanac knit-along.
I probably will not knit all those things. But thank you, guys, for bringing me back to Elizabeth's delightful pages. Now I know that the person who perpetuated the falsehood about fisherman's pattterns as IDs for the dead was she. And the bit about the #8 needle -- ah, such wisdom.
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