The American Red Cross Museum has made their knitting patterns available online.  These are the very patterns that were used in the knit for the troops movement.  Is there a vet in your life who would like a bit of knitted history?

[via Knitting History]

Editor’s note:  No bloggers were harmed in the making of this post.  This has nothing to do with my imaginary world and everything to do with the real deal …..

Aquarius:

Enough with the dutiful, responsible stuff. You’ve paid your dues. You’ve been diligent, trustworthy and reliable. Now it’s time to say something you’ve been holding back. Better prep the audience before you start talking, though. It’s only fair.

Some of you will read this and think wtf?  others will say, at long last ….

If I were to heed this advise, I would need to start another blog — an anonymous one.  The stories I could tell. 

There has been all kinds of crap happening around here lately.  People whose only agenda is to shit on the world.  Professional victims – they slay me.

Isn’t it nice though, when someone takes the argument to a new low?  I have been informed that there are people who are thinner than me, who have nicer legs and that my teeth are crooked!  Wow.  What does one say, how to respond?  How can I hope to recover from such barbs?  The shock almost killed me. 

Darling, you make it so easy to walk away. 

Thank you, thank you for that. 

Occasionally my mother would serve shit on a shingle for dinner. Despite the name, I always liked it although I haven’t had it in years and years. Do they even sell dried beef anymore?

You are Fish ‘Tacos.’ You might think you’re
exotic and worldly-wise, but in reality you’re
just a bunch of crap on toast. Repeat after
me: ‘just because you put something in
quotation marks doesn’t make it so.’ And
‘taco’ isn’t Spanish for ‘toast.’

What Weight Watchers recipe card from 1974 are you?
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Julia of Knitting History is hanging up her hat.  Julia was one of my very first blogging buddies.  Her life has become too busy – as we all know, blogging is a huge time investment and Julia has a dissertation to write.  Her site focused not only on her own projects, but on the history of knitting.  Julia’s sidebar is a wealth of historical knitting pattern links.  If you have an interest, get over there and bookmark them, she will be taking her site down and that info will be gone.  Anyway, my best wishes go with her and I certainly hope she checks in every now and again.   ~sniff~

I am using Typepad’s delayed posting feature.  Tomorrow morning I will be stuck in rush hour traffic on my way to work.  I have been teaching a knitting class at a Wellness Center on Thursday mornings.  The class runs for an hour and a half.  As ridiculous as this is – in the morning, it takes me an hour to get there!  In fact this drive should take approximately 25 minutes, but such is the nature of the Long Island Expressway at 8:00 a.m.

I have been thoroughly enjoying this little job of mine.  Everyone I have met is so enthusiastic.  Many of them really don’t need a knitting class — they just need a small dose of confidence and the ability to correct mistakes.  Somehow, learning to pick up a dropped stitch is a turning point.  If you know you can fix it, then you aren’t afraid to make the mistake and it frees you.  You can relax and enjoy.

Do you remember that magic moment?  the moment when it hit you – that you can simply pick up that stitch.  that you didn’t need to panic and run screaming to your LYS, or in my case call your Grandmother long distance and lash out at her in unattractive ways?

thank God that woman loved me enough to put up with that shit …. and I did call back and apologize – I may have been cranky, but I wasn’t a complete ass.  And I was always her favorite, so she must have forgiven me …..