Posts from ‘February, 2013’

Here, have a picture. This is what I’ve been working on, or not working on. Some of both, I suppose. A pair of socks on DPNs, and learning how to knit two socks at once on two circs. Also, boxer.

First and most exciting: Ancient Textiles, Modern Science is available for pre-order from Oxbow Books/David Brown Books (here’s the UK link). The European Textile Forum was founded as an annual meeting for academics, craftspeople, re-enactors and enthusiasts to share their experiences and compare notes. With varied day workshops and evening lectures, the ‘Textilforum’ has something […]

It seems like everything I’ve done with string for the past couple years has been for classes and articles and such, and it feels wrong to me to put much of that on the blog. If nothing else, someone has paid money for that piece of knowledge, and I don’t want to just give it […]

WordPress ate my post, it seems. So here, have some pictures instead. I’ve been traveling enough that I bought amusing socks specifically for going through security. This trip: Oklahoma City, for a combination of professional conference and project planning meeting. I stayed at the Colcord, Oklahoma City’s oldest skyscraper. The building’s twelve stories were quite […]