The siblings, far from being sundered by rivalry, remained tightly knit through the years, so much so that one wag — it may have been Thackeray — coined the word "Pattledom" to describe their collective impact.
Mrs. Ungaro ordered a hamburger and salad, and Mingus asked the waitress, who was wearing enormous false eyelashes and a black knitted see-through pants suit, for a dish of black olives and some Poolly-Foos.
It's now computerised, but when Wheaton started, she wrote down the entries on 'McBee' cards, sticking knitting needles through holes to search.
He explains why the "eight practices" of America's best companies detailed in the book principles such as "stick to [your] knitting," "productivity through people" and "simple form, lean staff"–should not necessarily be accepted as gospel.
The pretty college graduate is now lying in bed, clearly still in considerable pain three days after a doctor sawed through the flesh and bone below her knee to insert what looks an awful lot like knitting needles through the length of her tibiae.
Empire State College, a division of SUNY, will offer VizMath, which Carol Yeager, a leader, said would be about "the visualness of math — things like math in art, Escher's work, and exploring hyperbolic curves through knitting".
With funding from the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), the UNDP has helped launch Dragash Women in Business, an all-female social enterprise that aims to provide employment through knitting for women in the Šar mountain range of southern Kosovo.
And, despite the tired "American Beauty" cliches of soulless suburban anomie (there's no urban or exurban anomie?), suburbia does a pretty good job of knitting people together through the things kids do.
Although their long length and pointed (albeit not sharp to the touch) ends could pose a threat to fellow flyers, TSA officials let knitting needles pass through security checkpoints.
