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An exploration of knitting from a geographer’s perspective
This is a quest to answer the questions where, why there, and how as we explore knitting’s tools, techniques, and designs. For example:
• How and why do techniques vary between places?
• What do designs tell us about places?
• Where (why there) and how are different kinds of materials are made into yarns?
A January 2008 course at Gustavus Adolphus College (Virtual participation welcome)
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- More projects have been finished
- Final projects, part 1
- Online knitting communities
- Where are we?
- The final project
- Lace
- Arts vs. crafts
- Field trip #2
- Two students reflect on the trip to the Tangled Skein
- A student's description of our visit to Cozy Acres...
- Why we knit
- Show and tell mittens
- Knitting in Estonia
- Finishing the mitten
- Textured knitting
- Making sense of mittens
- Mitten progress report
- The knitting goes on
- Show and tell hats
- Supplies for the third project
- Class update
- Field trip
- Hat progress
- Show and tell bags
- Supplies for the second project
- Knitting progress report
- Latvian & Andean knitting
- Where’s the geography?
- Progress on the first project
- Finishing up our brief history of knitting
- Test felting the swatches
- Teaching yourself to knit: results
- Supplies and picture of the first project
- First day of class
- Dear Visitors,
- Course description
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Knitting books
- Starmore, A. 1997. Aran Knitting.
- Dandanell, B. & U. Danielsson. 1989. Twined Knitting.
- Ling, Anne-Maj. 2004. Two-End Knitting.
- Threads. 1993. Knitting Around the World.
- Swansen, M. & J. Williams. 2007. Armenian Knitting.
- Gravelle Lecount, C. 1990. Andean Folk Knitting.
- Upitis, L. 1997. Latvian Mittens.
- McGregor, S. 1984. Traditional Scandinavian Knitting.
- Keele, W. 1995. Poems of Color: Knitting in the Bohus Tradition.
- Feitelson, A. 1996. The Art of Fair Isle Knitting: History, Technique, Color & Patterns.
- Rutt, R. 1987. A History of Hand Knitting. (my history reference)
- Macdonald, A.L. 1988. No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting. (my history reference)
- Crompton, C. 2004. The Knitter’s Bible. (a good knitting reference for beginners)
- Bush, N. 1999. Folk Knitting in Estonia: A Garland of Symbolism, Tradition, and Technique. Interweave Press.
Sources for cables
- Vogue Knitting. 2006. Stitchionary 2: Cables
- Starmore, A. 1997. Aran Knitting.
- Knight, E. (ed.) 2007. Cables & Arans. (not recommended, unorganized, very few charts)
- Crompton, C. 2004. The Knitter’s Bible.
Books to inspire two-color designs
- Bohn, A.S. 1965. Norwegian Knitting Designs.
- Dale Yarn Company. 1975. Knit Your Own Norwegian Sweaters.
- Debes, H.M. 1986. Foroysk Bindingarmynstur.
- Feitelson, A. 1996. The Art of Fair Isle Knitting: History, Technique, Color & Patterns.
- Gibson-Roberts, P.A. & D. Robson. 2004. Knitting in the Old Way: Designs & Techniques from Ethnic Sweaters.
- Gravelle Lecount, C. 1990. Andean Folk Knitting.
- Hansen, R. 2005. Favorite Mittens: Best Traditional Patterns.
- Hansen, R. 2005. Favorite Mittens: Best Traditional Patterns.
- Keele, W. 1995. Poems of Color: Knitting in the Bohus Tradition.
- Lewandowski, M. 1997. Folk Mittens.
- McGregor, S. 1984. Traditional Scandinavian Knitting.
- Norbury, J. 1973. Traditional Knitting Patterns from Scandinavia, the British Isles, France, Italy and other European Countries.
- Rutt, R. 1987. A History of Hand Knitting.
- Shea, T. 2007. Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
- Spies, N. 2002. Here Be Wyverns: Hundreds of Patterns Graphed from Medieval Sources.
- Swansen, M. & J. Williams. 2007. Armenian Knitting.
- Swansen, M. 1999. Knitting.
- Threads. 1993. Knitting Around the World.
- Upitis, L. 1997. Latvian Mittens.
Learn to knit websites
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Class photo
January 7, 2008
4 comments:
I am finding that knitting my second mitten is much easier than my first one. I'm hoping that it will go faster for me this time around.
I'm finding that my second mitten is looking much better than my first mitten. They are going to be quite the pair.
i thought that making the mittens was an easier process that i expected. Going into this project i was concerned about how complicated the cable was going to be and if it would be easy to increase stitches or not. IN the end i started to get used to the pattern and i think the final product turned out better than i expected.
- katie
the mittens where a lot easier to make then i had anticipated. it wasn't too bad making them. -Jonas Broccard
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