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Happiness Is: Winding Yarn into Balls
Kate’s favorite way to wind yarn into balls—no tools necessary!
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Part Second: Where sheep watch the sea.
This is the second of a three part story about my recent trip to Scotland, Shetland, and Norway. I’ve read a fair number of essays about a traveler’s first impressions of the Shetland Isles. Many of these begin, quite reasonably, with the surprise one experiences in suddenly popping out of a cloud in a tiny…
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Part First: The traveller returneth.
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” –Marcel Proust This is the first of three posts about my 2013 trip to Scotland, Shetland, and Norway. For me, one of life’s greatest joys is in revisiting corners of the world I have previously explored. This has always struck me…
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Sunsets and Sweaters on Kihnu Island.
In 2011, I had the good fortune to be part of a textile tour of Estonia led by Nancy Bush. I had traveled a fair swath of Europe and the UK previously–as far south as Crete and as far north as the enigmatic Old Man of Wick at the northern tip of Scotland–but the Baltic…
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