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• March 5, 2014

  Part Third: Solstice and stavkirke.

  This is the third and final installment about my 2013 trip to Scotland, Shetland, and Norway. Bergen. We left Shetland and took the short flight to Bergen in western Norway on Midsummer’s Eve. Our hotel was near the university, which has a fantastic museum with a number of knitted artifacts on exhibit. I was surprised to…

• February 13, 2014

  How to Make Dorset Buttons

  Feb 20, 2014 webinar —            Register Online. I’m happy to announce my upcoming webinar: How to Make Dorset Buttons. Join me on February 20, 2014 at 1pm EST.   These special buttons have a fascinating history. For three hundred years, intricately patterned buttons were produced in Dorset, England. Most often,…

• December 9, 2013

  The Secret Language of Mittens

  During the nineteenth century, Norway, like much of the world, was rapidly changing. In 1814, Norway declared its independence (officially dissolving the union with Sweden in 1905). By the 1830s, Norwegians were migrating to North America by the thousands in search of new opportunities. Many of these immigrants took small cultural mementos, like mittens, with…

• October 4, 2013

  Seeking Autumn

  With the first hints of turning leaves in the air, I start to relax. The smell of autumn is a welcome reminder that the long, busy days of summer and early fall on the farm do draw to a close. The farm has been a flurry of activity this year. We built a new barn…