Comments on: Not a Sweater http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/2009/07/05/not-a-sweater/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:25:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Toby Wollin http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/2009/07/05/not-a-sweater/#comment-130 Toby Wollin Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:03:57 +0000 http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/?p=631#comment-130 hehehe..Laura - that reminds me of George Carlin's comment that if you don't have deoderant, just use a bay leaf ..you'll smell like chicken soup!! hehehe..Laura – that reminds me of George Carlin’s comment that if you don’t have deoderant, just use a bay leaf ..you’ll smell like chicken soup!!

]]> By: Laura http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/2009/07/05/not-a-sweater/#comment-129 Laura Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:24:05 +0000 http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/?p=631#comment-129 And let us remember the six (I think it was) families mentioned in Joy of Cooking who among them shared a single bay leaf, used again and again! And let us remember the six (I think it was) families mentioned in Joy of Cooking who among them shared a single bay leaf, used again and again!

]]> By: Toby Wollin http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/2009/07/05/not-a-sweater/#comment-128 Toby Wollin Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:16:24 +0000 http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/?p=631#comment-128 My mom, who was a nurse/midwife in WWII in Scotland and London, talked about the whole 'picking down' process that they went through. She is also the person who taught me that you can make dessert out of anything - including stale cookies. My mom, who was a nurse/midwife in WWII in Scotland and London, talked about the whole ‘picking down’ process that they went through. She is also the person who taught me that you can make dessert out of anything – including stale cookies.

]]> By: Laura http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/2009/07/05/not-a-sweater/#comment-127 Laura Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:09:40 +0000 http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/?p=631#comment-127 Great post, Aunt Toby. (I'm a big Threadbanger fan/subscriber. SUCH fun.) And ANY post that references the marvelous and much-missed Elizabeth Zimmerman is a-one in my book! Just yesterday I went through my box of wool sweaters I've been collecting from thrift stores and felting, with an eye toward upcycling them (I have a lot of projects in mind). There is something about cutting into a wool sweater--even when felted-- that does take the breath away. I knew a woman who grew up in war-time Germany. She learned to knit from yarn her mother obtained by unraveling a very fine merino wool sweater. Both projects (obtaining the wool and a six year old knitting with it) sounded hellacious. May all of us, everywhere, be able to knit in peace! Great post, Aunt Toby. (I’m a big Threadbanger fan/subscriber. SUCH fun.) And ANY post that references the marvelous and much-missed Elizabeth Zimmerman is a-one in my book! Just yesterday I went through my box of wool sweaters I’ve been collecting from thrift stores and felting, with an eye toward upcycling them (I have a lot of projects in mind). There is something about cutting into a wool sweater–even when felted– that does take the breath away.

I knew a woman who grew up in war-time Germany. She learned to knit from yarn her mother obtained by unraveling a very fine merino wool sweater. Both projects (obtaining the wool and a six year old knitting with it) sounded hellacious. May all of us, everywhere, be able to knit in peace!

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