Joy Beeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >At 07:05 PM 12/18/04 -0500, Lynn Carpenter wrote: > >>My Dover copy of Mary Thomas's Knitting Book mentions special glove needles >>used for knitting glove fingers. I wonder if anyone still sells glove >>needles? Must ask my Historic Knit list . . . > >After making a set of glove needles and finding them impossible to work >with, I realized that in Mary Thomas's day, dp needles were long enough to >tuck under your arm or plug into a knitting sheath to free up one hand. >What she called "glove needles" were, no doubt, much like our "sock needles". > >Report back what the Historic Knitters say. But don't tell me where they >are; I spend *way* too much time sitting in front of the computer now.
It turns out glove needles, from 4 to 5 inches long, are still available. Some of the vendors include JKL Needles, http://www.jklneedles.com Woodland Woolworks, http://www.woodlandwoolworks.com/Knitting/Tools/Needles/knitNeedles.html and Knitters' Underground has steel ones from Inox, in sizes #0 to #0000: http://www.knitters-underground.com/dpneedles.html The Historic Knit list replies were pretty varied. Some knitters found, as you did, that they just couldn't use them. Others used them all the time and loved them. I think it must be like the metal-needle-versus-wooden-needle debate, or the metal-tatting-shuttle versus plastic-tatting-shuttle: some people absolutely love one or the other, and can't stand to use anything else. Lynn Carpenter in snowy SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
