Vintage Spool Knit Book cool 2 peg cords
March 26, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under Techniques & Stitches, spool knitting and spoolknitting, tutorial
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.
To …read more
Vintage Spool Knitting Book Mystery Object
March 25, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under spool knitter & spoolknitter, spool knitting and spoolknitting
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!
I have been peering into …read more
