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ironymaidenI went to Weaving Works to roll the body* today. I was hoping it would be more picked over, for their sakes. I got a couple books and a skein of Arne and Carlos yarn.
anyhoo, one of them is Designs for Knitting Kilt Hose and Knickerbocker Stockings. It is so charmingly half-assed. Originally it was self-published in Scotland in 1978, and the author was about 78 at the time. It assumes that the reader is intimately familiar with kilt hose, and the concept of cuffs hiding a garter, and calf decreases.
she doesn't bother with a legend for her stitch abbreviations** until there's a section she lifted from antique pattern books. THEN there's a legend and the untranslated patterns for a couple pages.
the best part? The section on argyle where she admits that she was never able to finish an argyle sock!
I will be able to make good use of it, but a few years ago it would have been impossible for me to decipher.
*they made some poor choices when they relocated a few years ago, and they exhausted all their resources. the storefront closes this month.
**w.o. stands for wool over, which folks in the US call a yarnover.
anyhoo, one of them is Designs for Knitting Kilt Hose and Knickerbocker Stockings. It is so charmingly half-assed. Originally it was self-published in Scotland in 1978, and the author was about 78 at the time. It assumes that the reader is intimately familiar with kilt hose, and the concept of cuffs hiding a garter, and calf decreases.
she doesn't bother with a legend for her stitch abbreviations** until there's a section she lifted from antique pattern books. THEN there's a legend and the untranslated patterns for a couple pages.
the best part? The section on argyle where she admits that she was never able to finish an argyle sock!
I will be able to make good use of it, but a few years ago it would have been impossible for me to decipher.
*they made some poor choices when they relocated a few years ago, and they exhausted all their resources. the storefront closes this month.
**w.o. stands for wool over, which folks in the US call a yarnover.
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Date: 2017-07-14 10:23 pm (UTC)Do you learn to knit in school, or at home?
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Date: 2017-07-14 10:49 pm (UTC)I learned at home, and I think that's how most people learn - from family, a class, or these days youtube. I took a class even though my mom is an avid knitter. (my mother refused to teach me because she knew we would fight.) some schools do teach knitting to children, I know one of my teacher friends uses it in her classroom, but it's not common.
my neighborhood is historically Scandinavian. I live across the street from the "Sons of Norway" which is a social club. the knitting conference is held by a heritage museum that has some fine examples of antique knitwear. one of the things that charmed me when I first moved to Seattle was all the white people not speaking English. it's gotten less common in the last few years, but the manager of the local drug store used to do transactions in some Scandinavian language with little old ladies, and it's everywhere when the museum holds their Yulefest. and Syttende Mai! we have a big parade, flags everywhere...I usually work from home that day because all the streets around my place are closed.