I have now discovered that there is a Seattle Knitters Guild and the next meeting is February 10th.
here they are Knitting in Public, 2008 – this photo is on their website
this is the other book I saw in the Nordic Heritage Museum Shop a year or so ago – they didn’t have it today but I’ll search to find where I can order it.
I did a bit more unpacking today and discovered a lot of rug wool for weaving. Now all I need is a loom. As regular readers of this blog know, I sold my Glimakra and it has gone to a happy home in Limerick. I am contemplating what loom to get – maybe just an upright rug loom since rugs are what I always seem to come back to. In the shipment is quite a bit of material which has been the alternative for weaving on the Glimakra – that material was woven years ago and I still haven’t converted it into anything other than very attractive bolts of cloth.
Tomorrow I’m going to a meeting of the Seattle Weavers Guild. I am really looking forward to that. They meet once a month and happily I am here for the January meeting. Maybe I’ll have a chance to discuss the possibility of a loom.
I had a wonderful day today at the Nordic Heritage Museum. It is about a mile and a half from the house here and a very pleasant walk to get there. I have been there several times before and loved it each time. Today I concentrated on the shop as there were a couple of knitting books I wanted to look at again. A year ago they seemed too expensive and too heavy to take back to Dublin. Now I’m here for good (well, almost) and weight is not an issue apart from carrying them back to the house. These books were published in Norway – I found one of them – Setesdal Sweaters, The History of the Norwegian Lice Pattern, authored by Annemor Sundbo. Checking the internet I see that this book is available from Schoolhouse Press. And a photo of the author can be viewed on gnomiejo’s blog, 2007, when Annemor was the guest speaker at the Seattle Knitters Guild.
The other book I wanted to find was out of stock or out of print, I’m not sure which. In lieu of that, I found a book titled Norwegian Handknits, Heirloom Designs from the Vesterheim Museum, by Sue Flanders and Janine Kosel.
I bought a number of other things of Scandinavian interest and then wandered off to look at some of the exhibits. There is a room devoted to each of the Nordic Countries – Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. There are also items showing how the Sami people live. The textile items in each room are of particular interest to me, of course. Photography is not allowed so I’ll just have to describe some of the items – will save that for another time.
photo from the Nordic Heritage Museum website
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