tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post710102386397961495..comments2024-03-28T23:25:07.821+00:00Comments on Jean's Knitting: Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038517988391228260noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-26879306038023450372007-12-01T06:57:00.000+00:002007-12-01T06:57:00.000+00:00Could you possibly be more over the Earth Stripe??...Could you possibly be more over the Earth Stripe?? I bet it will get lots of compliments, though. I found this with the Sister Shawl and really that was pretty easy and definitely boring to knit!Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12124722668160658606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-55954498995521482882007-11-30T13:06:00.000+00:002007-11-30T13:06:00.000+00:00The Opal is from their Hundertwasser collection, c...The Opal is from their Hundertwasser collection, colorway 'Seeschlange'. I've got a sock on the needles in the same colorway.Melhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18047049720897209506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-92001707887140865742007-11-30T11:01:00.000+00:002007-11-30T11:01:00.000+00:00congrats on the i-cord finishing. I think I alrea...congrats on the i-cord finishing. I think I already mentioned that whenever I get mine done (after getting the k-s haze in the mail and then starting, sigh) I've already decided I will have a "side" fringe.<BR/>I'm wearing a very warm but sheddy Russian mohair shawl, so I figure I'll be used to those extra ends by the time I get finished. :)<BR/>MaryjoMaryjoOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12861945604000052572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-899583076199605822007-11-30T10:43:00.000+00:002007-11-30T10:43:00.000+00:00When I cleaned my mothers attic, I found two regul...When I cleaned my mothers attic, I found two regulation cotton red cross bandages, presumably from WWII, in her stash of oddballs. My guess is that these were all she could make at the time, as she was in grammar school. More recently, she was doing this sort of knitting for the merchant marines, hats and such.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-88089133178741536022007-11-30T08:38:00.000+00:002007-11-30T08:38:00.000+00:00I am sure there would have been stashes back then ...I am sure there would have been stashes back then but they were more likely to be the accumulation of yearsworth of leftovers, with the addition of stuff with no specific aim but bought by ladies prosperous enough to take advantage of the sales. We certainly had the leftovers, in the fifties, along with the occasional deconstructed jersey, but I have the impression that even ladies higher on the prosperity scale than us lived the same careful lives, and bought their yarn fresh, in the same way as the vegetables!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-89214137751342388702007-11-30T08:24:00.000+00:002007-11-30T08:24:00.000+00:00In Eleanor Graham's 'The Children who lived in a B...In Eleanor Graham's 'The Children who lived in a Barn' (1938) there is an elderly lady, Miss Blake, prosperous enough to have a live-in companion, who has a stash of wool, from which she chooses some recycled balls in an ugly colour to teach the child Alice to knit. The book is currently in print, as a beautiful Persephone edition, and I thoroughly recommend it.Viviennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15102166089045048403noreply@blogger.com