I have a friend who "does" 18th Century. She is currently knitting stockings on a wooden frame about 8" diameter. This is set with wooden pegs and the fiber is worked in much the same manner as the Knitty-knobby one might use to make cording. She says that one can even turn a heel!!
Kathleen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Clemenger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 10:13 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: knitting stockings > There are apparently several very inventive methods, but the one I've heard > of most often involves creating a loop of some sort in the cable for the > circular needle--there are actually books available on the technique, here > in the U.S. Not something I've tried (I'm plenty happy knitting mine one at > a time with DPNs), but I've heard of them. You could probably find > something online pretty easily. I just googled for "magic loop" and > "knitting," and came up with these links, among many: > http://www.az.com/~andrade/knit/mloop.html > http://www.knitaddicted.com/files/MagicLoop.pdf > > Hope that gives you some idea of what the technique is.... > --Sue in Montana > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Audrey Bergeron-Morin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 2:01 PM > Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: knitting stockings > > > > > Using two circular needles to knit one stocking or even two at a time > > > is a technique suggested to me by a knitting group that I sometimes go > to. > > > > How do you knit two stockings at the same time? > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
