Nora Howley
norahowley.bsky.social
Nora Howley
@norahowley.bsky.social
Knitter, 🧶 teacher, researcher, questioner
Independent researcher looking at the migration of Shetland wool and knitting to the US. Website www.knittingtales.com
Might help with the housing shortage?
November 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Now in Silver Spring. Finger crossed
November 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
It was last seen back in MD. Maybe tomorrow is the day.
November 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I remember the first time we went there and Kathleen and Matt exposing Billy Connolly to us afterwards.
November 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I know it will get here but it feels symptomatic of something bigger
November 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Planning to convince my beginner students to buy
October 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
When I teach, I have students buy the pattern. Is there something I am missing about structuring a class around a particular pattern if it’s properly paid for?
October 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Got both of mine separately within the last six weeks. So glad my HMO and my state are behaving sensibly.
October 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is amazingly lovely. My parasthesia is in part of my right hand and I feel so connected to this work.
October 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Wow
October 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I’m working on a theory that this type of weather travel “advice” for Americans may be rooted in the assumption that we spend all our time in the car at home but being a tourist means more outside time. Hence the temperature shocks
October 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Something like “we are knit together by ..,,”
October 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Have you read Emily Wilson’s translations of the Odyssey and the Iliad? I don’t disagree on Beowulf and Gilgamesh. It’s that her translations made me rethink them both v
October 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Thai curry paste, onion, garlic, ginger, coconut milk (the kind in a can), a bit of fish sauce
October 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
As usual I have no idea which pattern this is, but OMG. I see some comments about vintage patterns which whatever else there faults are never this long. Paper cost too much. Along w everything else said, this length seems to assume reading it on a screen
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM