These little knitted jugs are generally about 3 to 4 inches (8 to 10 cm) high, often knitted in the round in two colors, in stripes, using fine yarn and fine needles.
Have you been knitting along with our Weldon’s mystery project series?
The caption reads: Molly Brown, the unsinkable daughter of an Irish immigrant, wears a dress lavishly trimmed with Irish crochet.
Practical Linen Embroidery, First Series, contains illustrations for numerous elegant stitches to adorn and embellish the Victorian home. Personally, I am a big fan of knots and included within are three ways for working knots.
When and how did traditional Norwegian knitting designs cross cultural and national boundaries to enter American fashion and become an icon for American skiing?
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.