March 2016 – Maura Elizabeth Cunningham

Bookshelf — Knitlandia, by Clara Parkes

I read a lot of books about knitting, and a lot of books about travel, but I’ve never read a travel book about knitting before. There’s a reason for that, as Amazon tells me that this might be a genre with precisely one title in it: Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World, recently published byContinue reading “Bookshelf — Knitlandia, by Clara Parkes”

Two Wurms and a Bird

During that freezing winter in Beijing back in 2005, I became a fan of the knit earflap hat: there was simply no better way to stay warm outside than to keep my head nearly encased in wool and Polarfleece lining. I’ve had several earflap hats over the years, and while they’ve all looked ridiculous onContinue reading “Two Wurms and a Bird”