Wednesday, June 17, 2009

UK knit circa 1800?

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How did folks in the UK knit circa 1800? 1) Certainly, hand-held DPN (or needles held, supported, or controlled in the arm pit) with the yar...
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Monday, June 15, 2009

New Lion Brand Fisherman's Wool

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I knit my first gansey from "Lion Brand Fisherman's Wool" some 3 years ago. It is an extrodinary garment knit from an extrodin...
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Monday, June 08, 2009

How Knitting Sheaths Work

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I get this question- frequently. So, I am going to post an answer, HERE, where everybody can find it. First, a knitting sheath is a tool li...
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

I made the same stupid mistake as Rutt

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I did. Look at the knitting sheaths in all the collections and most of them are 2o to 25 cm in length. Then, at the end of the Beamish colle...
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Monday, June 01, 2009

In a rut

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I read all of Rutt. Then, I looked at a bunch of his original sources, and read him again. Then, I went to the shop and made needles and exp...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Rutt – A History of Hand Knitting

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For the last few years, every discussion of the history of knitting has eventually resulted in somebody quoting Rutt, and that often being a...
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Monday, May 25, 2009

Curved Needles and Sock Yarn

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OK! Curved needles do work for sock yarn, I just had to drop down to 1.5 mm pricks, and it gives me about 10spi. The yarn band says 7.5 spi...

Curved knitting needles in the style of the Yorkshire Dales

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I am simply amazed at how little has been written about curved needles (pricks) as knitting tools. My first swatch with the first curved nee...
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Saturday, May 16, 2009

Knitting before Newton

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Lack of evidence for existence may or MAY NOT be evidence of non-existence. Lack of evidence may simply be good evidence for moths, mold, da...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Swaving

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It is how the "Terrible Knitters of Dent" knit so fast. Miriam Tegels as a speed kitter? Ha! she does not even have a "clew....
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Why were the old knitting sheaths so big?

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The books said old knitting sheaths were BIG, so my first knitting sheaths were big. Then, over time I discovered that for just plain knitt...
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How Old is knitting in Great Britian?

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Recent scholarship on has shown very a very high level of knitting skill in Estonia in the 13th century ( a study of a 13th-century votic kn...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Knit like a Professional

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For a very long time, knitting was a honored profession, with its guilds, tools, and skills. Guild members traded knowledge and the trained ...
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Saturday, May 02, 2009

More Tools

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People want knitting sheaths and gansey needles. Nobody else wanted to make them, so I am. I bought some bigger tools. And, I ...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

History of Knitting Revisited - Again

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What do we know about early knitting in Western Europe? Given the nature of wool and knitting tools it is not surprising that we do not hav...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

The Physics and Theory of Ganseys

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Clothing is warm because it stops the flow of heat away from your body. Heat flows away from your body in 4 ways; radiation, conduction, adv...
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Sunday, December 14, 2008

The Filey

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The Filey is done! While I would not say that it is a beautiful as It is knit from Frangipani on (mostly) 2.5 mm needles. Pictures to come...
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Monday, July 21, 2008

More on Pit Knitting

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Look at her go! (I have been watching knitting videos—again!) Pit knitters can be wicked fast. And, they can knit tighter without damagin...
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Knitting Warm Woolens

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My rules of thumb. Not yet edited up, but just as a data dump. "Spinning in the grease" does not make warmer woolens. The old fish...
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Monday, July 14, 2008

Belts v. Sheaths

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I keep going back to the question, “Why did knitting belts survive when knitting sheaths died out?” There are three basic answers that keep ...
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