I found this guirlande (garland) on the Tête de Linotte blog and post it here with permission (and thanks). I love the idea of tracking projects this way. With enough swatches and a strong enough cord, you could even suspend swatches from one end of a room to another.

Yesterday morning Sabrina Gschwandtner, author of KnitKnit: Profiles & Projects from Knitting's New Wave, was interviewed on on NPR's The Bryant Park Project. Click here to listen to the interview and see the audio slide show. Sabrina talks to the hosts about her book, the many forms knitting can take (including graffiti, protest, and art); historic and current wartime knitting; knitting and community; and more. Photo above of Isabel Berglund's "City of Stitches" from Sabrina's book.

There is a very interesting article in today's New York Times called "The Slow Life Picks Up Speed." It's about  Slow Design, a growing movement  that emphasizes creating and consuming products in a slow, environmentally careful, and fair way.  Natalie Chanin, author of the Alabama Stitch Book, is one of several inspiring artisans/business owners/authors featured. (Photo above from Natalie's book)

As a knitter, I have developed a deep appreciation for sheep. How could I not, considering all of the beautiful fiber they so generously share with us year after year? And so I am particular intrigued by Andy Goldsworthy's new book called Enclosure. It recounts in words and photos his Sheepfolds Project, for which he restored over 40 stone enclosures once used by farmers to shelter, count, and wash their sheep in six districts of Cumbria. In the introduction to the book, James Putnam explains: "Sheepfolds are beautiful and graphic reminders of the days of early shepherding out on the hill, on common land."

The book also includes a collection of fascinating works related in various ways to sheep, for example, this shot (part of an 8-part series called "Wool Throws") of Goldsworthy tossing wool fleece into the air.