Habetrot

Can You Imagine VII

Can you imagine the wife of a US President sitting down to spin at a charkha?

Can you imagine a country putting an image of the wife of a US President sitting down to spin at a charkha on a postage stamp?

 

This stamp of Eleanor Roosevelt (activist and inveterate knitter) was issued by India in 1963 to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Roosevelt's role in its passage.

Roosevelt was such a knitter that the official White House portrait of her includes an image of her knitting hands.

 

Rest In Peace, Ruthie

THE Ruth Schooley, Twisted Spinster, passed away on July 15, 2008. 

I will miss her terribly.

Famous Knitters II

The in/famous Joan Crawford.

Doesn't she look like a happy, relaxed knitter?

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Take a look at this video for an amusing overview of her career.

And here's a 1972 "Ladies Circle" article about Joan and her knitting, complete with a pattern for this fabulous garter stitch afghan.   

Famous Knitters

Katharine Hepburn in 1935. 


"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun."