Becca Keyel

Design and Knitting Historian | Instructional Technologist | PhD @UWSoHE | @Wellesley lost in the wide wide world | Conductor of light | she/hers

[Becca Keyel @echoknits]

I wrote about some of my dissertation research on the Red Cross knitting program for the Center for Knit and Crochet's blog! Go read it and come back and tweet me about it!

#knittingresearch

[Center for Knit and Crochet @CtrKnitCrochet]

One of our favorite quotes from Rebecca Keyel's article about the American Red Cross Knitting Program: "…there was some concern that the enthusiasm of Red Cross volunteers needed to be contained."

Hmmm....tantalizing. Read more at https://t.co/EKAg62h42s

[Center for Knit and Crochet @CtrKnitCrochet]

CKC member Jennifer Lindsay talks about Digital Strategies for Preserving and Sharing Our Knitting/Crochet Histories, March 15, 2 pm, at Textiles from Home, a free, week-long, online celebration hosted by The Center for Design and Material Culture at UWisconsin-Madison, @uw_cdmc

[Becca Keyel @echoknits]

@KilravockRose It sounds like he's related to @M_Cederstrom

[Becca Keyel @echoknits]

@chase_prairie No! Home for the duration! I didn't see this until just now, but the one person from our office who was going to go in for a bit in the afternoon stayed home.

[Becca Keyel @echoknits]

@KilravockRose Cats

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

120 tribal leaders to send Biden letter urging him to appoint a Native person to his cabinet—in what would be the first in history.

Many are looking at @Deb4CongressNM to be the Secretary of the Interior.

https://t.co/XpbJ9rx2yk

[Center for Knit and Crochet @CtrKnitCrochet]

We searched "mums" in CKC's digital archive, bc chrysanthemum is November's birth flower. Mother Annie knits & daughter Abby reads, in this parlor photo from c. 1890. Where's "mums" in that?

Read this whole thread to find it, and enjoy the quirks of searching digital archives.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

We did it, @JoeBiden.

[Becca Keyel @echoknits]

@kerrabecca @KilravockRose Me too actually. I might have to just... get one. I would also crush a garbage plate

[City of Madison, Wisconsin @CityofMadison]

No matter where you live or who you are, everyone must be counted on the #2020Census. Complete it online today and make sure your family and friends do the same! Go to https://t.co/NxfZDtEWEF.

#MadisonCounts #CensusRapidResponseNLC

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[Becca Keyel @echoknits]

@KilravockRose @M_Cederstrom You were the alibi. Somehow? It got a little vague and then suddenly we were walking in the rain to get my glasses fixed

[Becca Keyel @echoknits]

@KilravockRose @M_Cederstrom To be clear, it was @M_Cederstrom’s fault that the bride ran away, but my subconscious wasn’t clear on what he’d done.

[Becca Keyel @echoknits]

@KilravockRose @M_Cederstrom It was more of a runaway bride situation, which made it extra confusing

[Center for Knit and Crochet @CtrKnitCrochet]

It's Cousins Day, and here's Florence Nightingale's cousin teaching children to knit, presumably for the Red Cross, in Madison Square Park, NY, c. 1917-18. The archive doesn't say what her name was. Dear Reader, can you find her name for us?

Do you have a story about...

[American Folklore Society @afsfolklorists]

Black Lives Matter.
We, the American Folklore Society and our undersigned partners listed below, unequivocally condemn racism in our communities and institutions, and we call for deep listening and action against race-based injustice.
https://t.co/0h8p1k9CFA

[Becca Keyel @echoknits]

@M_Cederstrom Please know that my vote (magical) counts for two, since I asked Nick and he concurred.

[Becca Keyel @echoknits]

@M_Cederstrom It was going to be a podcast where he explained the news.

[Becca Keyel @echoknits]

@M_Cederstrom Early on Nick was really thinking of starting a podcast. I was concerned.

[Becca Keyel @echoknits]

@M_Cederstrom Thank you!! (Have a cat in thanks also)

[Becca Keyel @echoknits]

@M_Cederstrom Ugh, I'm not keeping up with things. Do you know if there are minutes from this anywhere?