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Terri Shea
I worked for many years in the computer field, building and repairing systems, installing networks, providing technical support, building web sites, and managing others who build them too. I left the workforce when maternity leave coincided with the big dot.com crash of 2001.
The job market was terrible, so I decided to dedicate myself as a Stay-At-Home-Mom. I found it very difficult to step from the 60-70-hour work weeks of the dot.com bubble to 24-hour a day mothering duties with nothing to show at the end of the day but eighteen dirty diapers. I started submitting knitwear designs in 2002 to provide the kind of project-oriented direction I had been used to previously.
In 2005 I enrolled in the Museum Studies certificate program at the University of Washington Extension Services. I never finished my anthropology degree, but I thought this program might, with my other work experience, allow me to volunteer or work at a museum, especially in a textile department. The program took me much farther than I imagined: Selbuvotter is a direct result of my certificate.
In 2011 I republished a classic volume, Norwegian Knitting Designs. This work was originally published in 1929 and remained in print until the author’s death in the 1970’s.
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Terri Shea's Ravelry Downloads
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Fiber Gathering: Knit, Crochet, Spin, and Dye More than 20 Projects Inspired by America's Festivals
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Piecework, Jan/Feb 2008
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- Norwegian Stockings to Knit
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Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
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Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
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Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
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Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
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Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
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Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
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Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
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Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
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Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
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Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
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Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
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Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
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Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
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Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
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Nordic Knits 2007: Knitting Patterns Inspired by the Nordic Knitting Conference
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- Selbu Bag
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Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
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Lion Brand Yarn Just Socks
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Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
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Terri Shea's Ravelry Downloads
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Plymouth Yarn P428, Encore Chunky
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