Entries by Suzann Thompson

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World Leprosy Day 2022

By Suzann Thompson and the CKC Board of Directors Part of the Center for Knit and Crochet’s social media development process is to find inspiration from the commemorative days and holidays of each month. That’s how I learned about World Leprosy Day, which has been celebrated the last Sunday in January, since 1954. World Leprosy […]

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Knitting/Not Knitting Can Be Beautiful

Why would a coroner’s inquest or the Census of the United States appear in CKC’s digital Library and Museum Collection? Turns out, they list people whose family names were Crochet, Knittel, Knitterscheid, and Knith; and a person whose first name was Knittie. The same goes for other lists of individuals in the archive. Don’t even […]