Besides "Knitting Around," her books included "Knitting Without Tears" (Scribner's/Macmillan, 1971), Knitter's Almanac (Scribner's/Dover, 1975) and "Knitting Workshop" (Schoolhouse Press, 1981).
Her youthful memories, as recalled in "Knitting Around" (Schoolhouse Press, 1989), suggested a bucolic paradise, framed by plum trees and plum jam, governesses and private schools.
Keep knitting around in a circle or a spiral.
In their case, it's the network of people that they gradually knit around themselves based on a shared interest in food, from the grain supplier to the bakery apprentice to the farmers' marketers and restaurateurs who order the loaves.
Woven through is a rather grown-up hipster aesthetic, with guerrilla knitting around tree branches and bearded characters who wouldn't look out of place at a Portland indie-rock show.
Knitting around just about anything, seems to be all the rage these days.
That involves placing "knitted art" around town and on a Yahoo-themed food truck.
She set the shoebox on the table, shrugged out of the pack, then pulled her knitted duster around her and fell, sighing, into a chair.
WALL STREET JOURNAL Yahoo Bets on Yarn Art | The Internet company is planning a series of activities related to the Sundance Film Festival, including streaming 12 short films on its Web site and dropping a "yarn bomb" on Park City, Utah — placing "knitted art" around town in a reference to the phrase "spinning a yarn," The New York Times reports.
