Cable Gram Blog from December 2006
Why Blog?
In the last issue of Cable Gram, I interviewed several local knitters about their knitblogs. I had one last question to ask them: Why blog? What is the value of having a knit blog? The responses were heartfelt and enthusiastic. “Being part of the blog community is the best benefit,” says Renee of A Good Yarn. “I have met and/or communicated with many other knitters through my blog. I enjoy the opportunity to express myself and start conversations with others about things I care about.”
Hunting for Treasure in the Textile Center Library
You won’t find a whole lot of people who get excited about book classification. But when it comes to numbers stuck to the spine of a library book, Kathy Erickson’s face positively lights up.
“This is so cool!” she says of the Bauerliches Stricken series, a three-volume set whose components, until recently, were in two different places on the Textile Center library shelves. These three unassuming-looking books by Lisl Fanderl, who has been called “the Barbara Walker of Bavaria,” contain a wealth of German knitting- stitch patterns, all with charts. Now that they are all under the same classification number, they’re lined up together on the shelf. Furthermore, a note in the library-catalog record means that all three books will turn up under a keyword search for “patterns for knitting.”
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