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Lit. knit: pen & ink

The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting, and Why it Still Matters

Juno Fibre Arts 'Alice': 'Ink Blot' (in the skein there, but now on the needles)

Madelinetosh Sock: 'Ink' (already knitted up - proper pictures soon).

13 August 2014 in Lit. knit | Permalink

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A lost art handwriting certainly is.
As is all the personalisation attached to it.
We are entering a world not dissimilar of Aldous Huxley's brave, new one....
I for one am missing my handwritten mail delivered in the old fashion way (via postman).
Interested to see your thoughts on this book Karen.

As always, love your skeins of blue.

Posted by: Helen | 14 August 2014 at 03:12 AM

I love writing (anything) in longhand, and take pleasure in others' good penmanship. I was interested to hear Matthew Kneale he always works initially in longhand as it calms him: http://www.cornflowerbooks.co.uk/2014/08/judith-kerr-matthew-kneale-edbookfest.html

Posted by: Cornflower | 14 August 2014 at 05:32 PM

I have a desperate urge to squish 'Alice'!

Posted by: Darlene | 14 August 2014 at 08:00 PM

Thank you Karen.
Just read your post on Judith Kerr and Matthew Kneale.
Couldn't agree more with the benefits of longhand writing. I am forever nagging my over computerised young teenagers to always, always, always draft essays by hand. I am convinced the brain thinks far more differently (creatively, logically, even far more successfully at brainstorming) when pen/pencil touch paper. The thinking process seems to flow far more easily. The mere fact you can quickly scribble out ideas and throw arrows all over the page gives the sense of ideas and plans coming together.

Sigh.... Unfortunately, they do not listen.
I persevere, maybe they will one day discover that their mother was right. :)

Posted by: Helen | 15 August 2014 at 09:39 AM

It is gorgeous!

Posted by: Cornflower | 15 August 2014 at 11:47 AM

I so agree about the thinking process when drafting by hand, and isn't it a mother's lot to have her sound advice ignored?!

Posted by: Cornflower | 15 August 2014 at 11:48 AM

Look at you go with your knitting! So glad you "got bit by the bug!"

Posted by: Rebecca | 16 August 2014 at 02:38 AM

Bitten is the word!

Posted by: Cornflower | 18 August 2014 at 08:21 PM

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