Wednesday, March 2, 2011  Keeping You in Stitches - Volume 5  In
an effort to give these articles a "home" on the web.. here's
another one of my knitting related newspaper articles.  Well not
totally mine, I co write them with a dear friend, Sandy.  Going
Like Crazy  One long, gray Iowa winter when I was 10, my mom
taught me to knit and I made a few simple items.  I let my
skills lapse and did not pick up the needles again until I
wanted to knit sweaters for my own children. I picked up a book,
“Learn to Knit” so that I could refresh my memory.  Right away I
saw diagrams illustrating the way I had been taught.  It is
called the American or English way. My aunts had told me that my
Danish grandmother knit differently from my mother.  They called
it: “the German way.” but, I had never seen it.  Fast forward 40
yrs when Mary joined our Tuesday group at the library.  I
noticed she could knit so fast that the stitches seemed to jump
onto her needle. She was going like crazy. I was really
interested now.  As I watc