Knititude: First-ever contest!

Press

More Big Girl Knits
About the No-Gap Wrap Pullover: "We love clever, and this sweater is clever."
Interweave Knits Summer 2007
About the Lutea Lace Shell: "...what appears at first glance to be a standard tank top knitted in flat pieces turns out on closer inspection to be an ingenious piece of three-dimensional sculpture." Pam Allen, Editor in Chief, Interweave Knits

Rec reading

Barbara G. Walker: A Treasury of Knitting Patterns
Barbara G. Walker: A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns
Barbara G. Walker: Charted Knitting Designs: A Third Treasury of Knitting Patterns
Adam Haslett: You Are Not a Stranger Here
Most of these stories are decent, but the collection is worth buying just for the first one, "Notes To My Biographer." Wow!
Toni Morrison: Beloved
One of my favorites.
Beverley Jackson: Splendid Slippers: A Thousand Years of an Erotic Tradition
Fascinating look at an extremely disturbing tradition. One of my great-grandmothers (on my mother's side) had bound feet. I saw a pair of handmade slippers for bound feet in an antique store in Nantucket, and had to have them--the most expensive shoes I own! Anyway, after that I bought this book. As for "erotic," a chapter called "sacrifice at the altar of beauty" explores some of the many notions of sexual attractiveness which require painful bodily alterations or embellishments.
Michael A. Dirr: Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia
I would love this book even if I lived in a studio apartment (maybe even more so). You always know exactly where Mr. Dirr stands: "... I have never recommended, at least when conscious, a poplar," or "[the oakleaf hydrangea] is one of the most handsome plants that landscape designers have at their disposal." For a picture of the latter, see my photo album.
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Vintage Contemporaries)
Nicky Epstein: Knitting on the Edge : Ribs * Ruffles * Lace * Fringes * Floral * Points & Picots - The Essential Collection of 350 Decorative Borders
If this doesn't get those creative juices flowing...but why does the author reference a symbol for borders in which "both sides are the same or equally attractive" in the introductory notes, then not use the symbol once? (If she did, I missed it). A minor quibble, to be sure.
Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex: A Novel

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La prima contesa!

I was organizing my stash the other day (the American part of it; there's more waiting for me when I return to Italy in September) and thought, "I'm ~~going to get rid of some of this yarn I'll never use~~ feeling generous today."

Stavo organizzando lo mio stash l' altro giorno (la parte americana; c'e di piu aspettando per me in Italia quando ritorno in settembre) e pensavo, "Mi ~~liberero' di un po' di questi filati che non usaro' mai~~ sento generosa oggi."

So, if you are one of the first three readers to answer the following question correctly, you can win 4 balls of one of the pictured yarns! International readers, yes, I will ship overseas.

Allora, se sei uno di prima tre lettori che risponda alla domanda successiva correttamente, puoi vincere quattro gomitoli di questi filati! Lettori internazionali, si, spediro' all' estero.

Here's the question: What do the following words, names or phrases all have in common?

Ecco la domanda: Che cosa hanno le parole, i nomi o le frasi successivi in comune?

Captain Kirk
Country song
Delicata
Hermosa
Literary giant
New dawn
Penelope
Radiance

Good luck!
Buona fortuna!

(This does have something to do, in a very roundabout way, with knitting, as will be revealed in a future post.)

Mi dispiace, ma non so come di tradurre "something to do with" o "in a very roundabout way".

Comments

Mmmm, this is going to be hard! :)

"Something to do with" maybe..."qualche cosa si tratta di"? Not sure about "in a roundabout way", let me check with the husband :)

Posted by: connie | July 13, 2007 at 11:43 AM

My guess - Ulysses/Odyssey? :)

Posted by: connie | July 13, 2007 at 11:57 AM

They're all names of roses. Pink ones!

Posted by: Gradschoolknitter | July 13, 2007 at 12:02 PM

they're all names of roses!

Posted by: anne | July 13, 2007 at 12:30 PM

Doh! (Homer Simpson slap upside the head). Gradschoolknitter and anne are right. Wow, Capt Kirk a rose name? I wonder if that was before Star Trek or after? And a *pink* rose at that? :)

Posted by: connie | July 13, 2007 at 12:59 PM

something to do with = "ha qualcosa a che fare con" or "si tratta di"
in a roundabout way = "indirettamente"

-from my husband ;)

Okay, I'll stop commenting now and get back to work!

Posted by: connie | July 13, 2007 at 01:28 PM