Recently, I was given a copy of a wonderful old book: Spool Knitting by Mary McCormack.
It is a treasure. It’s 100 years old and has delightful photos.
I find it interesting that Mary McCormack consistently calls the spool knitted cords, ‘webs’, rather than cords.
I think that this is probably because she likens a child (she always uses ‘he’ as the supposed spool knitting  child, never ’she’, sigh) to a spider spinning a web.
Her projects all involve spool knitting yards of cord, mostly on 2 peg spool knitters, and then stitching them into shapes that are then assembled for the finished project.
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Today, a wonderful package arrived in the mail.
I was so excited I could hardly stand it.
Last week, a very kind person sent me a note, saying that she had found a book on her shelf.  She knew that I would love it, and was sending it to me.
She also laughed about some of the rather strange projects in the book.
Needless to say, I was intrigued.
The title sounded vaguely familiar, so I googled it and discovered that it was uploaded on several websites.
Wow! I was about to own a copy! I could hardly wait until it arrived!
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Tammy sent me a note, saying that she liked the spool knitted Celtic Interlace heart Valentine
and that she thought that the motif would work well as an applique or other embellishment on garments or home dec stuff….
Yep, I agreed.
This is something I’ve been doing for quite some time.
And, I figured that I should show a few pics of some of the spool knitted Celtic interlaces that I have included on some of the shawls I’ve designed and made:

Yup. Love my spool knitters…..  and Celtic interlaces…..
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