Carol Huebscher Rhoades’s lovely knitted scarf honors Isabella Bird, one of the nineteenth-century’s most extraordinary travelers.
The knitting stitch, a double row of straight stitches slanting in opposite directions, forms a solidly stitched, braidlike pattern on a canvas or fabric surface, and resembles true knitting.
Researching the Roumanian stitch was very interesting but also confusing: This stitch has a number of aliases.
Scotland has a long and colorful history—143 meters (469.2 ft) long, to be precise! That’s the overall length of the 160 embroidered panels of The Great Tapestry of Scotland.
You can knit a penwiper from Weldon’s Practical Knitter, Eleventh Series in the shape of a Turkish Fez. Just by looking at the illustration, you would have no indication of scale.
One hook. One yarn. Two hands. Add a creative mind to encourage the adventure, and you can be off into the wide world of crochet.
The fashion transformation from chemise to camisole traveled a long historical road.
If you were limited to just one way to shape the toe of knitted socks, what method would you choose? I will occasionally ask myself silly questions like this one to promote entertaining the possibility of trying a new technique.
The pattern for this square scarf comes from Linda Elgas’s book Haapsalu rätikud [Haapsalu Scarves] published in 2001 with support from the Haapsalu Handicraft Society in Haapsalu, Estonia.
Knitting in Early Modern Europe (KEME) is a European Union-sponsored project with the aim of expanding knowledge of the origins and development of knitting from 1450 to 1750.