A few years ago, before I kicked the eBay habit, I picked up this gadget: It’s about 9″ in diameter, made of sickly green and ivory plastic (it might have started out in brighter green and white, but yellowed with … Continue reading
I like to have my cables tell a story. Not a literal story, with characters and conflict. I mean a logical progression through an introduction, development of the action, climax, denouement, and conclusion. The introduction and the conclusion are the … Continue reading
Northern climates produce more than musk ox yarn. Knitting yarn has been successfully produced from the skin of fur-bearing creatures, too. Fur yarn is the epitome of exclusivity on two counts. By weight, it’s about twice the price of qiviut; … Continue reading
Canadian Patent No. 535,571 In the 1950s, Mary Maxim, the well-known purveyor of crafting supplies, began selling a series of sweater patterns incorporating alternate views for set-in and raglan sleeves:
Shoot me now.
U.S. Patent No. 2,435,068 – “Number Knitting” A woman by the name of Virginia Woods Bellamy invented a type of knitting in the 1940s, which she termed “number knitting”. She published a book on the subject in 1952. When I … Continue reading
Regia Loop Color four ply sock yarn. “Loop” is “pool” spelled backwards. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
It seems that I’m missing some graphics files, which might be lurking on a backup disk somewhere… or maybe they’ll have to be regenerated. I’ve been working on the old knitting patent journal entries (the first is up tomorrow), and … Continue reading
Based on the comments, I think that it’s the negative synergy theory that wins out. The plastic feel is probably amplified by the yarn structure. All round, a winner, until you discover what real fibers feel like. There’s a new … Continue reading
I’ll have to level and admit that, despite 10+ years of knitting, I’ve never handled the stuff. I’ve only seen it in pictures and read about it elsewhere. But after reading yet another thread about just how awful this yarn … Continue reading