tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post3509498054629875989..comments2024-03-29T11:38:51.363+00:00Comments on Jean's Knitting: Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038517988391228260noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-76613921679225120212007-11-07T10:37:00.000+00:002007-11-07T10:37:00.000+00:00Yes, I echo the thanks for your paragraphs from yo...Yes, I echo the thanks for your paragraphs from your no. 1 VKB. What a thrill to have acquired it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-67879069812568909812007-11-06T18:01:00.000+00:002007-11-06T18:01:00.000+00:00How exciting. Thanks for the paragraphs.How exciting. Thanks for the paragraphs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-17588078864087354352007-11-06T17:12:00.000+00:002007-11-06T17:12:00.000+00:00For stocking stitch alone, I found this method in ...For stocking stitch alone, I found this method in Mary Thomas's Knitting Book (p 240 of my 1938 hardback). For stocking stitch and for ribbing, I found it illustrated in 'Needlework for Student Teachers' by Amy K. Smith (my copy is the fifth edition, 1899 - it also contains a very early reference to grafting). None of my 1940s Odhams knitting books seem to mention mending knitting!Viviennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15102166089045048403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-89293955817667906922007-11-06T16:40:00.000+00:002007-11-06T16:40:00.000+00:00Stripes = lovely.I think I saw that mending techni...Stripes = lovely.<BR/><BR/>I think I saw that mending technique for duplicating stitches somewhere online. Knitty? Ysolda? Something.<BR/><BR/>The VK magazine is so cool. I have a couple of books from the 1930's-40's but nothing as old as yours.Shanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10704810407872873565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-44540515725579047582007-11-06T14:48:00.000+00:002007-11-06T14:48:00.000+00:00how lucky you are to have it! I would love to see ...how lucky you are to have it! I would love to see it. The ES Stole is lovely. Is it a long stripe is stocking stitch or is there more patternSandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15632777234664583020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-37954929252544386202007-11-06T14:41:00.000+00:002007-11-06T14:41:00.000+00:00Thank you ever so much Jean for my continual Earth...Thank you ever so much Jean for my continual Earth Stripes "fix" -- I think I'll definitely make it. Your photo really does give credit to the colors, and the future warmth for my shoulders. <BR/><BR/>This broken arm "thing" has gone on for a long time: I was just "unlucky" that the break didn't heal itself. But then when you consider I finally had 2 plates and 12 screws it MUST have been a bad break, no? I nearly wept for joy when I could pick up knitting and crochet and do something for 10 minutes in the beginning. DPNs were impossible at first, so I have a lot of crocheted granny squares waiting to be worked on. It is truly amazing about anatomy, muscles and the like that are involved with knitting!<BR/><BR/>I had to recuperate in London for 10 days after the surgery, and somehow found the stamina to walk to John Lewis' on Oxford street from my Grosvenor Square hotel to find some Rowan wools. There were very sympathetic sales ladies (I had to sit down immediately upon arriving in the section -- not much stamina then)! But PT is coming along well -- it's just slow.<BR/><BR/>Thanks also for the VK excerpts -- what fun! MaryjoMaryjoOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12861945604000052572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-77023318057782662932007-11-06T14:04:00.000+00:002007-11-06T14:04:00.000+00:00I would love to learn that darning technique. And ...I would love to learn that darning technique. And congrats on the progress on the stole.Meghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12917492201754455495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-50237341146362315712007-11-06T12:37:00.000+00:002007-11-06T12:37:00.000+00:00Regarding the replacing stitches method of mending...Regarding the replacing stitches method of mending knitting - Rae Compton's Illustrated Dictionary of Knitting under Repairing Knitting. But . . . I have not had this book for more than a year or so, and I have a nagging memory of seeing the method explained in a book from way back fifty years ago. If I track it down, I will let you know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-38433246191342120792007-11-06T10:54:00.000+00:002007-11-06T10:54:00.000+00:00oh that is a hilarious excerpt from VK. and from ...oh that is a hilarious excerpt from VK. and from reading ravelry this is still an issue with knitters. funny to think about when considering that knitting was a man's craft or way of survival for so many years. when i take my knitting to a park i always get approached by men who want to know if i'd possibly knit them a hat, a pair of socks anything goes. i interpret it as a cadeau to knitters. <BR/>your earth stole is certainly proceeding nicely and the stripe report looks lovely.<BR/>i have to rush to get montse stanley at bookdepository.co.uk. do you know that bookstore link? v ery good customerservice, free shipping on any needlework book still in print.knititchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11143430462744751602noreply@blogger.com