I know the trend is all skinny jeans and 80’s crop tops these days, but I’ll never lose my childhood love for 1970’s sweater jackets and knee high boots in autumn. The one I’m creating now will probably look something like these ones, but even thicker, as I want to be able to walk around Sleepy Hollow in this one.…
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know…Umberto Eco I don’t know about you, but I’m one of those knitter/crocheters (and writer/readers, for that matter) who begins a project and gets so freaking inspired by the work of it that I come up with another project. I get…
I loved creating this design and I sold three sweaters before I was even finished crocheting the one I was working on. It’s an easy shell stitch, and it reminded me of the rich green that comes after a long summer of rain, which we had in Pennsylvania last year. It’s a clean, fitted, shape, and I used silky acrylic…
(Jean Borgos Burnett in far left corner kneeling among her husband’s-James Faye Burnett’s-Oklahoma kin. 1947) The world has lost two great influences in the last few weeks, my grandmother and David Bowie. At first sight, you’d be hard-pressed to find a decent connection between the two. One was born in 1922 in Brooklyn, New York to one Jewish parent and…
