Elementary: a Fair Isle hat that was designed and knit for Level 3 of The Knitting Guild Association (TKGA) certification for Master Hand Knitter. The name is for the colors used and the sweaters I wore during Elementary School in the 1970s. The yarn…
This sweet hat-shaped pincushion was crocheted with white cotton yarn that seemed similar in size to sport or DK weight yarn. The decorative flowers were crocheted with No. 10 crochet cotton in two different variegated colorways. Lengths of blue 1/2…
Some of these pussyhats were made for women across the country to wear at the Women's March in Washington D.C.
Others were made for local women to wear to local marches. My daughters and I participated in a march in Morris Minnesota.
The marches…
My grandmother, Doris Scovill, gave me this hat in the late 1960s or early 1970s. At that time, she worked as a travel agent planning tours to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. On her own travels there, she collected textiles and other decorative…