This post was originally going to be poignant, touching and funny.  Everything you always wanted in a knitting blog post.
Alas, due to the machinations of big business, my original vision has been forced to change a bit.
A couple of years ago, my sister Bets — who keeps EVERYTHING — went closet-diving and surfaced with a really [...]

OK, so these two stitches walk into a bar, and sit down.  The bartender tells them, "We don’t serve stitches in this bar.  Get out!"
They leave, and go around the corner, where one of the stitches says, "I’ve got an idea."  He unravels himself, untwists his ends a bit, and ties himself into a knot.
The [...]

According to the expiration date for the "special offer", I received this Comcast ad sometime in summer, 2003. I liked it so much I’ve kept it pinned to my studio wall ever since.
You have to admit, he’s a pretty advanced knitter – Continental style, and he’s purling, yet.  Even more remarkably, it looks like he is wrapping the [...]

 
This gem appeared in the same book, on the very same page, as the Cossack costume.
 
And yet, some people still shake their heads over my affection for vintage knitting books. I say you just can’t find this kind of entertainment in today’s material.
And because I’m from the Midwest, where "If you don’t have anything nice to say, [...]

OK, OK, I simply could not resist posting this vintage gem – even though this is CROCHET, not knitting (and I think knitters all over the globe can all be thankful for that). I truly believe this picture deserves a better fate than being stuck in an old book, forever hidden from prying eyes. The [...]