Word: knitting
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Consumer advocates preach caveat emptor, but the Vinsons have decided to just say no. Last Christmas, Norman bought Arlene a St. John knit suit--and charged...
...expected to move to Minnesota and 3,500 to Wisconsin, where they will be eligible for welfare at a time when the job market and state budgets are tight. For the families of the victims, the economy is the least of their woes. The entire close-knit community is reeling from the loss, and hundreds are turning out for the funerals of their neighbors and fellow hunters. Many of the mourners are wearing blaze orange ribbons. --With reporting by Phil Bourjaily/Iowa City and Marc Hequet/Rice Lake
It’s three o’clock on a damp Friday afternoon, and Menendez is urging Ros to change from her green T-strap shoes to her pink galoshes before the two venture out into the rain. Dressed down in maroon Juicy sweatpants, a cable-knit sweater and a puffy black jacket, Menendez seems unfazed by the downpour. “Umbrellas are for slackers,” she says...
Katherine J. Thompson ’05 knows how to knit. Rather well, actually. Thompson took up the arcane occupation at age ten, when her family moved from California to Germany. “All the students [there] had to learn to knit and crochet…I was really bad so I sort of gave it up,” she explains. Her family returned to California one year later, where she refined her skills and “made a bunch of things that aren’t really useful in California because you don?...
Amazingly enough, Thompson still has time to simply hang out with friends—and not just to teach them how to knit. Her friend Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06 says that Thompson “has this lovely subtlety to her.” Between the knitting, theater, book reviewing, mapmaking, and volcanic studies, Thompson is busy, to say the least. “I’m doing so many things that I want to do,” Thompson says, “[but] there’s always something I wish I were...