At 07:05 PM 12/18/04 -0500, Lynn Carpenter wrote: >My Dover copy of Mary Thomas's Knitting Book mentions special glove needles >used for knitting glove fingers. I wonder if anyone still sells glove >needles? Must ask my Historic Knit list . . .
After making a set of glove needles and finding them impossible to work with, I realized that in Mary Thomas's day, dp needles were long enough to tuck under your arm or plug into a knitting sheath to free up one hand. What she called "glove needles" were, no doubt, much like our "sock needles". Report back what the Historic Knitters say. But don't tell me where they are; I spend *way* too much time sitting in front of the computer now. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the canal has skimmed over with ice, and the creek is thinking about it. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
