Knitting from vintage pattern books
September 6, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under knitting
In June, I found a wonderful vintage knitting book that probably came off Noah’s ark. It’s full of class and timeless designs with enchantingly bizarre captions under the photos.
I have been working
on knitting
leggings for
our soon to be
grandbaby.
The pattern
is written for
2 needles, but
I thought…
oh really…
these leggings
are just a bi-furcated sock!
I can knit them in the round.
It was slightly odd to translate the pattern, as there was a very different way of constructing a knitting pattern in the 40’s, when I assume this book was written. It took a bit of neuron crunching to shift the pattern from 2 needles to dpn’s. …read more
