Frau und Mutter Marianne Hainisch is no enfeebled wraith, no sit-by-the-stone, no knitter.
I asked Ina Irvine, 63 (whose husband is Willie's first cousin), a professional knitter who spins her own wool, why the Shetland variety is so soft and durable.
It has seen its busy millswhere in the palmy days before depression and improved machinery began to displace labor, a good knitter could make $125 a weekoust workers for .
Exene Cervenka in San Diego Union Tribune That's what I hear tell. Bloodshot has that tribute to The Knitters record,Cervenka said of the renegade-country label's "Poor Little Knitter on the Road," which includes contributions by the likes of Whiskeytown (with Ryan Adams),...
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee in Christian Science Monitor Think of how freeing this is as a knitter,says Pearl-McPhee, whose blog can be found at yarnharlot.ca/blog. "Up until blogging, if you knit a [bad] buttonhole you might be stuck until you can get to a knitting store. Now, I can take a...
Edith Sitwell in Wall Street Journal Edith Sitwell said of Virginia Woolf: "I consider her 'a beautiful little knitter.' Mary McCarthy famously excoriated Lillian Hellman, who she considered tremendously overrated, a bad writer, and dishonest writer."