From past blogs and archives if you’ve been following me you’ve seen the photos before but I want to honor and remember an important person in my life who influenced what I do most days. Knit!
Honoring my paternal Grandmother born on February 7, 1892
Heritage
Ben H at WordPress says “This week, share a photo of something that says “heritage” to you. It can be from your own family or culture — a library, a work of public art, a place of worship, an object passed down to you from previous generations.”
Mary Alta Kerr Hendricks my paternal grandmother. Farmersville, Illinois. She taught me to knit when I was four years old.
She knit the Afghan and made the quilt. She’d tat snd crochet, too. I held the quilt to the window so the light could show how beautifully it is pieced and hand stitched.
My father Roy J. Hendricks is the boy standing on the left. Uncle Alan Hendricks is the baby on my grandmother’s lap. My grandfather is standing, Floyd Merle Hendricks.
From 3 years agopost
Mary Alta Kerr Hendricks, my paternal grandmother, was born in 1892 She went by the name Alta. When my father was born they lived in Farmersville, Illinois. One summer my brother and I stayed with our grandparents and she taught me to knit. It was yellow yarn is straight aluminum needles. They were red. I was four years old.
This is just from the time she resided in a Nursing Care Center in Taylorville, Illinois. My grandmother kept a list of the afghans and shawls she knit for others during this period of her life. Written inside the cover of her copy of The Book of Common Prayer.
Great grandson Shawn Hendricks posted a photo of this tag found on his father’s (John) Afghan1973 photograph of me in the middle, my grandmother on the right and Aunt Vesta Kent on the left. Morrisonville, Illinois.
Cats love nothing more than unravelling carefully wound balls of wool. Hard to know why really, but it does look kind of fun while they’re at it. We can say with certainty that, with the LEGO Ideas Tuxedo Cat, your grandmother’s knitting bag is safe.”
Wednesday morning, I was on my way to Boston to visit friends. I met the loveliest couple on the airport bus and their seats on the plane were right in front of me.
They have a good friend who knits and turns out I already follow her on Instagram. Alice Dunn Smith of Birchtreeknitting.
They told me there was a brand new knitting store –Knit Tuck & Purl in Lexington Massachusetts.
Friday, my friends Linda and Eileen took me to the shop.
We met Laurie the owner and saw samples of Birchtreeknitting hat patterns knitted up (which we later bought on Ravelry ) and discovered there would be a hat making workshop at Knit Tuck & Purl
The designer is teaching a class at the store!
I bought MDK Botanica book, a skein of holiday sock yarn by Biscotte and Turkey Point protectors by Fox and Pine Designs.
Everything was lovely.
Laurie Williamson CEO in her new store I added the Yarn store sticker in the Yarn Store Passport my friend Gayle in Australia gifted me
Moon and Yarn Craft Room has moved to a spacious and bright storefront in downtown Bellevue, Pennsylvania.
“….The Craft Room offers supplies for weaving, spinning, knitting, crochet, needle felting, punch needle, embroidery, visible mending and more. The shop is a place where beginners, seasoned crafters, and all fiber folk are welcome!” You can even get potholder looms and loops in updated colors!
Owner Bryanne welcomes you 605 Lincoln Avenue Lovely light in a new expansive space There are classes and craft gatherings you can follow on Instagram or clickwebsite link .
Last month I read e-Books by the author Marie Force at Carnegie Public Library on their Libby app.
Force is the author of the McCarthy Family Saga Series on Gansett Island. A great escape.
Then I watched an Instagram live interview and I heard if you wrote a comment about what you do while reading, you’d be eligible to receive one of two copies of Force’s new book from publisher 1001darknights_blueboxpress.
I wrote that “I knit cozy socks while listening to audiobooks.”
And I won a copy of her new book! thank you Blue Box Press.
Fed Ex delivered it promptly and I’m going to read it this week.
Had to finish some current knitting projects, pumpkin hats and a few other projects.
My granddaughter took a photo of me and two good knitting friends as we sat on my front porch, knitting.
One friend Terry was knitting socks with the Woolens and Nosh Yarn colorway actually named Porch Knitting.
Our friend Randi was knitting a Hawthorne Tank by Caitlin Hunter.
I was knitting Christmas Socks with Must Stash Yarn that Terry had given me.
I shared the photo of the three of us with our Knitting Buddies Zoom group.
Photo taken by Prema
And the photo inspired one of our members to paint us -Porch Knitting.
It was Joanne’s first time using acrylics and she was visiting her sister Mary who was tutoring her on using the new paints. Joanne usually paints with watercolors.
Here’s her first acrylic painting-
Porch Knitting
Artist: my dear friend Joanne B. Terry is a terrific sock knitter. Holding Porch Knitting yarn, knit into socks!
