I love knitting cables -- so structurally complex and varied, and I have wondered how in the world did that ancestor knitter decide one day to create such intricate patterns? Hiking in the Colorado Flat Irons revealed a possible answer...Nature has ever been the first teacher in the art of twinning and knotting.
"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." -- "The Unpublished Journals of John Muir," (1938)
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Midori Snyder
Midori Snyder is the author of nine books for children and adults, published in English, French, Dutch, and Italian. She won the Mythopoeic Award for The Innamorati, a novel inspired by early Roman myth and the Italian "Commedia dell'Arte" tradition....more
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