As a lover of textiles, I’m really intrigued at how Jane Austen uses some of the details of dress to paint a portrait of her characters.
If one looks no further than the surface, any one of Jane Austen’s novels is nothing more than a well-written and engaging romance— enjoyable and entertaining.
And so it is for any knitter. No matter what you do in knitting, you have the opportunity to remove your past mistakes and start fresh, taking what you’ve learned and moving forward to a better future finished object.
Although a precise date for knitting’s origin cannot be assigned, we do know that people of various cultures and in diverse geographic areas have been knitting for centuries.
This issue focuses on Arthur Conan Doyle’s socks, Nathaniel Hawthorne's cat (?), Little Red Riding Hood’s red hood, and other projects for bookworms.
