Nothing whatsoever was achieved today. Nice weather, though. C. came. She pushed me around the garden. I won’t see her, or Helen, for a week. Alexander and Ketki are picking up the load. I should see them.
I still can’t remember the Knitting Bishop’s name. I’m sure I could winkle it out of Google. There was a letter from the current Lord Kitchener once in the Times, giving an address. I wrote to him asking about “Kitchener stitch”. He replied a year later, saying that he had never heard of it. I then wrote to the Bishop. He replied at once, “Dear Jean”, but couldn’t solve the problem. I have both letters in my archives somewhere.
Wordle: I couldn’t do it. C. usually does it, but hadn’t this morning. I showed her my three lines. I had struggled mightily for half an hour and was beginning to believe there was no qualifying word in the language. C. looked at it for a while, and got it, so my “winning streak” is intact. Rachel and Theo were the threes today. Alexander needed six.
I can still remember what I want to say about yesterday’s ONION but am too tired. Maybe tomorrow.
Is it Richard Rutt?
ReplyDeleteYes.
DeleteRichard Rutt was a Bishop in Cornwall, Falmouth I seem to remember.
ReplyDeleteRichard Rutt was the Bishop of Leicester in the Anglican Church, and later converted to the Catholic Chirch and became a priest in Falmouth, so everyone is correct.
ReplyDeleteChurch, not chirch! Everyone is correct apart from my spelling.
DeleteWas Kitchener stitch so-called because it's use was being encouraged for the toes of home knitted socks sent to troops in WW1? Keeping your feet in good condition was a terrible problem for the soldiers and knobbly toes could cause sores that would a man was out of action while they healed. Foot inspection was one of the duties of a good company commander or whatever they were called.
ReplyDeleteYes. At first it was the Lady something heel (Mary?), then Kitchener heel, then by a sort of folk process it switched to the toe and then to the method, which had formerly been called something logical like "weaving", if I recall correctly. The term showed up earliest in an Australian newspaper, I believe. It should be somewhere in the blog archives.
DeleteI can never remember the Kitchener Stitch when I need it. So I have a little note next to my computer: Front: Knit OFF
ReplyDeletePurl ON
Back: Purl OFF
Knit ON
It reminds me to knit one stitch on the front, and slip off the stitch, then purl one stitch and leave it on. Then to purl one stitch on the back, slip it off then knit one stitch and leave it on. And so on....back and forth.
Glad you are able to get around, Jean.
Sarah in Manhattan
ReplyDeleteAnd then we have Kitchener buns here as well - nobody knows quite what the origin of these are either. They are best described as a ball of yeast bun rather like a doughnut. They usually fried, more rarely baked. After cooking they are split open and filled with raspberry or strawberry jam and a lot of cream (and I mean a lot). They are then covered in sugar. Best not eaten around knitting - if at all. Apologies to everyone - but I just could not resist!
ReplyDeleteLike a cross between a doughnut and a Devonshire split, from the online photos. I realise we have them in England too, I've seen them in windows but never had one so I didn't know what the dough was. I've no idea what they are called here......
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