Joy Beeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>At 07:05 PM 12/18/04 -0500, Lynn Carpenter wrote:
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>>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 . . .
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>Aft
Hello everyone,
I think I'm few days late for the discussion, but felt I need to comment this
anyway.
I have been reading with a strange feeling your writings where you give the
impresson that mittens are for children only. I wear mittens daily during
winter time. I feel they are much warmer a
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 th
Here's another reason for mittens instead of gloves on the little ones:
Ever try to knit a set of tubes to fit four little fingers and a thumb that
are under an inch and a half (about 4 cm) around??? That's the
circumference of my 5-1/2 year-old's fingers, and imagine when he was
smaller . . . .
Hi All, When I was in my late 20s my sister gave me some beautiful bright
green knitted mittens with bright embroidery on them. They had a wide cuff
and were so big I couldn't stick them in the pocket of my coat. I didn't
want to lose them so I put them on a string! Besides not losing them
anot
I concur with Ruth about trying to get a toddler's fingers into the
correct holes. I couldn't with the first one, and couldn't with the
2nd, so they wore mittens. Didn't seem to affect the playing in the
nsow too much.
Now they're 9 and 6 1/2 and wear gloves.
Funnily enough, I have some wonderf
