Ilga's Knitting World

From the entry 'Images from a Latvian Farm'.

What a beautiful posting. I love the photo of the welcoming farmhouse in the winter.

From the entry 'Wintry Beach'.

beautiful grays! I have a favorite picture from years ago of gray barn in a gray landscape of cornstalks, horizon, oak trees, fence posts, wire, and gravel, in the beginning of a snowstorm at dusk. What it’s missing is the ocean, the water and wet rocks. What a wonderful eye you have!

From the entry 'Images from a Latvian Farm'.

beautiful--it reminds me of my father’s farm in Iowa, especially the mass of trees (probably a windbreak) entirely shrouded in snow....

From the entry 'Custom Knits by Wendy Bernard'.

I wholeheartedly agree with you on Wendy’s book. I love it! It also has a great size range- big enough for “fluffy” girls,like me, but also in a good range of sizes.  Love it love it love it!

From the entry 'Latvian Apples---And Mittens'.

I bought my mother a copy of the book for Christmas - it’s wonderful! She left her home in Latvia during the chaos of WWII and made her new home here in the US. At 88 years old, she’s still knitting absolutely beautiful things - lots of Latvian mittens and socks among them. The book makes my fingers itch to try some of the designs - if I could only get through the backlog of projects I already have planned. A note about the apple orchard photos - they bring back wonderful memories of our trip to Latvia a few years ago, when my brother and I took Mom back to Latvia for the first time in over 50 years. It was late summer, and the first of the apples were beginning to ripen. It seemed that everyone who had even the tiniest patch of ground had an apple tree and had their hands outstretched to share their harvest with friends and strangers alike. Latvians seem to have such a strong empathy with the beauty of nature - that certainly comes through in Ilga’s knitting and photography. Ilga, you need to write a book featuring both!