I love Ona and her designs, and they are a perfect match for such a local and handmade yarn as Junction Fiber Mill. Thank you for sharing their stories!
I grew up many, MANY years ago, and I learned knitting from a group of elderly ladies who lived in a row of houses, in a little town in Kansas. They were my grandmother and her 7 sisters, who would gather most warm evenings, on one porch or another, to drink tea, knit, argue, laugh, and carry on a running commentary on life. I would sit on the stairs, with a pair of wooden knitting needles, my grandmother gave me, and I'd try to imitate their work, which wasn't easy. I was dyslexic before there was a word for it, and a 'leftie' which made learning to knit a whole other confusion. They taught me so much in those days. How to make a passable loaf of bread, how to give advice in a sweet way, and how to knit a pair of socks on double pointed needles. Even now, decades after these ladies passed on, I often FEEL them around me, when I enter a yarn store, or look at patterns, or see a beautiful new color of yarn. I think our craft is handed down, generation after generation, by ladies like that, who never realized they were passing down life experience along with stitches.... I'd love to see your yarn store, but as a South Texas native, I'm just going to dream about it, and wish you all a wonderful, extended life of teaching and training the next generation as we all were.
Thank you so much Eva for taking the time to meet with me and Amanda and learn all about the mill and the process of designing a sweater! Thank you also to Seven Days VT and EastRise Credit Union for making this possible!
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How fun!!!! I love Junction Fiber mill and Ona’s designs. Thank you for sharing the woolly goodness.
Great job!
I love Ona and her designs, and they are a perfect match for such a local and handmade yarn as Junction Fiber Mill. Thank you for sharing their stories!
Cool story! Thanks, Eva!😊
I grew up many, MANY years ago, and I learned knitting from a group of elderly ladies who lived in a row of houses, in a little town in Kansas. They were my grandmother and her 7 sisters, who would gather most warm evenings, on one porch or another, to drink tea, knit, argue, laugh, and carry on a running commentary on life. I would sit on the stairs, with a pair of wooden knitting needles, my grandmother gave me, and I'd try to imitate their work, which wasn't easy. I was dyslexic before there was a word for it, and a 'leftie' which made learning to knit a whole other confusion. They taught me so much in those days. How to make a passable loaf of bread, how to give advice in a sweet way, and how to knit a pair of socks on double pointed needles. Even now, decades after these ladies passed on, I often FEEL them around me, when I enter a yarn store, or look at patterns, or see a beautiful new color of yarn. I think our craft is handed down, generation after generation, by ladies like that, who never realized they were passing down life experience along with stitches.... I'd love to see your yarn store, but as a South Texas native, I'm just going to dream about it, and wish you all a wonderful, extended life of teaching and training the next generation as we all were.
Thank you so much Eva for taking the time to meet with me and Amanda and learn all about the mill and the process of designing a sweater! Thank you also to Seven Days VT and EastRise Credit Union for making this possible!
What was that person spraying on the wool?
Do you sell online?