What an amazing website! Shorpy is an archive, in very high detail of historical photo’s. Presented in blog format, just browsing through the archives is an amazing trip back in time. Check it out: http://www.shorpy.com/
Don’t miss the opportunity to view the images full size. The detail is amazing.
I got a heads up about this great site from the This Week in Photography podcast episode #16.
For a recent class, I needed to create a beginner research guide for a topic that interests me. So of course, I chose knitting history. Below is the rough content of my research guide. Enjoy!
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I’m working through Barbara Walker’s first Treasury of Knitting Patterns and making some swatches. I think I’ll make them large, with a bulky yarn and maybe turn the resulting swatches into a blanket someday.
Today it’s the Inverness Diamonds pattern using Berroco Vintage Chunky left-overs from my large cardigan.
Nice texture. Lovely pattern. Enjoy!
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Maquire has done it again; he’s taken us into Oz, but not Baum’s Oz, a new, different Oz.
This book begins just after the Wicked Witch of the West has her meltdown. Liir, a boy who was raised by (as he thinks of her) “the Witch,” has to go out on his own. He returns to the Emerald City with Dorothy, but then is left on his own. His adventures are absorbing, and the issue of whether is the son of the Witch is left in mystery until the very end.
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