Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Knitting Etc.

  • Alive & Knitting on the Move

    As mentioned previously, I’m in the process of dividing my blog posts. All the knitting, sewing and Fibre Friday posts will now live on their own blog, Alive & Knitting. Book stuff will remain here. All the posts aren’t moved yet, but there are enough to make it worth having the new blog public. I’ll…

  • Disappearing Posts

    If you like to cruise my posts about knitting and quilting, you’ll start to find some bad links. I’ve decided to move all of my crafty posts to their own blog, to improve the SEO of this site. Pictures of my knitting don’t, after all, have much to do with my books. There’s a lot…

  • A Tale of Three Socks

    Socks, socks, socks. I need socks this fall and have been casting them on for myself, but my efforts have been disappointing. Here’s the first one – I’m sufficiently unimpressed by it that it doesn’t have a partner yet. The yarn is Estelle’s Sock Twins and I bought it because of the gradient colour. This…

  • Additions to the Herd

    I haven’t talked about my vintage sewing machines for a while, but there are two new girls in the herd, and I thought I’d show them off today. First, there’s a Singer Stylist 457: This one was quite clean, although I want to refinish its box. It was made in St. John’s, Quebec, in 1961.…

  • Sunny Socks

    We’ve been having so much rain here that Mr. Math and I have been discussing the merit of building an ark. It’s a bit frustrating as far as the garden goes – the weeds keep growing, but the weather isn’t very conducive to getting out there and cleaning up the beds. I did a lot…