Pieces of knitting history are being auctioned off later this month. Barbara Walker is auctioning off some of her amazing knits. You know, Barbara G. Walker, knitting luminary, author of Knitting from the Top and all those lovely stitch treasuries? Barbara Walker, creator of the SSK? (Betcha didn’t know that.)
Schoolhouse Press is handling the auction. I scrolled through the pdf catalogs, and for a moment I thought BGW23 in the first catalog was the sweater she was wearing when I met her. I did a search on my blog and found this picture:
Close, but not the same. Good, because otherwise I’d want it. Badly. But I did enjoy revisiting my Sock Summit post from 2009. Remember the luminary panel? :sigh: (I love that my blog is my journal; it’s much easier to search than my old paper journals.)
I have mixed feelings about the auction. It’s very cool that you can own a gorgeous piece designed and hand knit by Barbara Walker. But it also seems like there should be a knitting museum somewhere, to house treasures by all knitting luminaries, kind of like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Wouldn’t that be cool?
PDXKnitterati 
Knitting needs to be enjoyed, worn, used. For that reason, I’m glad to hear about the auction.
Yes, knitting should be used and enjoyed, but I can’t help but feeling that these particular knits need a much wider audience to enjoy them!
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