I have been wanting to knit a Mary Maxim vintage intarsia sweater for years.
Net embroidery was fairly simple to do but required patience. Catherine would have traced the design on paper or cloth, then basted cotton bobbinet over it, keeping the net straight and not too tight as she mounted it on a simple pasteboard frame.
This week, we feature the second in a series of Frances’s re-creations, Mary Elizabeth’s Lace Insertion.
The story of Mary Elizabeth Greenwall Edie’s knitted-lace sampler book is included in the May/June 2016 issue of PieceWork. We asked Frances H. Rautenbach to re-create several of Mary Elizabeth’s samples.
One thing no refined home could do without was a pincushion. Victorian pincushions ran the gamut from practical to ornate.
The story of Mary Elizabeth Greenwall Edie’s knitted-lace sampler book is included in the May/June 2016 issue of PieceWork.
Is knitting better than sewing, or does embroidery reign supreme? Today’s crafters would scoff at the question! Yet, those weird Victorians would certainly have an opinion on the matter.
April 6, 1909: Robert Peary reaches what he determined to be the North Pole.
Frequent PieceWork contributor Christopher John Brooke Phillips explores the history of the knitted Monmouth cap in his article, “The Monmouth Cap,” in PieceWork’s special issue Knitting Traditions Spring 2012.
The Knitted Rugs lack an accompanying illustration. What on earth do these Weldon’s Knitted Rugs look like?