Linda Ligon's Blog

Andean spinners are eager to share their vast textile knowledge

2013-06-05T11:00:00Z

Linda shares the magic of traveling in Peru and learning about textiles from its spinners and weavers.

Spinning effortlessly and naturally

2013-05-17T11:00:00Z

In our new video with Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez, shares the knowledge that she began storing up when she was only eight years old, tending sheep on the slopes around her native Chinchero, Peru, with Linda.

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Content without the clutter

2013-05-01T11:00:00Z

The beauty of magazines in electronic form, on CDs, on the internet is you can have the content without the clutter.

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Knitting and the Brontë sisters

2013-03-18T11:00:00Z

Linda shares highlights of PieceWork's Knitting Traditions Spring 2013 issue including her musings on knitting and the Brontë sisters.

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Time to relax or get back to work?

2012-12-26T12:00:00Z

Spend a relaxing day watching others spin Spend the day with Norman Kennedy and a song spinning. In Europe, in olden times, spinners had a break from their spinning during the celebration of Christmas. But the day after Christmas, they were admonished to get back to work! Rascally men would splash water on them if they malingered. But here's a question: just what is the day after Christmas? In days of yore, it was January 7, the day after the storied Wise Men arrived in Bethlehem. The day after...(read more)

The Zen of Spinning Silk

2012-08-01T11:00:00Z

It seem there is always more to learn about spinning silk.

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Knock Your Socks Off Socks

2012-07-16T11:00:00Z

Linda shares the story of the "Amazing Tapestry Crochet Socks." Wow!

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Dive into the early nineteenth century

2012-06-06T11:00:00Z

Linda shares the story of Lady Susan, the first, or one of the first books that Jane Austen wrote, and it is just strange. It was the inspiration for the Frederica Shawlette in the latest issue of Jane Austen Knits.

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