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I went to a book presentation and knit night last week. I knew we were going to learn a new technique and I brought with me some yarn and a pair of long needles from my collection. Beautiful, soft grey and blue yarn in lambs wool. When I started to knit I could not understand why people were kind of laughing, and then pointing at me.......no, not at me, but at my needles. Especially the one with a hook at the end. I saw my dear old needles with fresh eyes, and had to laugh myself. The needles are at least 50 years old, inherited from my mother, or may be even my grandmother. The little red bead at the end is there to prevent the stitches falling off. At one point one of the beads fell off, and to secure the stitches a hook was made. Practical and functional.
Then we started to look more closely at the yarn, something I had not done when grabbing it with me when I left home. It turned out it came from a spinner which not make yarn for knitting any more, and the teacher and knitting book author mean it probably came from the late 19670ies. The spinner was Røros Tweed, a company which still makes wool. The word "møllsikret" means moth secured, something we do not do today.
Old needles, old yarn, a new technique, mosaic knitting. I loved it, and now I have a new pair of wrist warmers :-)
In my newest YouTube-episode I talk about the wrist warmers, and a lot more:
That looks a really interesting technique. Was it easy to master?
I too have plenty old, slightly wonky needles!
Posted by: Frances Howard-Brown | 04/10/2019 at 08:38 AM