digital humanities « Handmade Librarian

Crowdsourcing Fair Isle.

Last month I learned the basics of two-color knitting at Vogue Knitting Live. Instructor Amy Detjen was practical, helpful, funny, and skilled. I was able to leave class with the foundations of understanding how to wrangle two colors at a time while knitting, and I’m now furiously collecting colorwork knitting patterns on Ravelry. And I

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The Quilt Index.

My love for handmade material culture is in large part tied to my interest in the human histories behind objects. A digital humanities project that I’ve been spending far too much time with lately has, as one of its many virtues, a means of collecting and sharing the stories behind quilts all over the country.

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