Dear Friends,
One can use bigger yarns. The knitted figurines don't need to be tiny. Indeed the maker can add any lace features, whether in knitted lace, or bobbin lace, machine lace...
Exactly. And I have only ever sourced my knitting yarns from Op-shops for the past 30 years. With such small quantities required it's not all that difficult to un-ply wool if you have to.
On the subject of teaching children, I can only reflect on my own dear Mother's efforts with the 5 of us back in the 50s. She was of the firm belief that if you taught a child to knit by giving them a scarf, many wouldn't finish it because it is so boring, and in fact they may even be turned of knitting for life!
No - she had small dolls and taught us to knit their clothing. That way we learned much more than just garter or stocking stitch - shaping, rib, pattern draughting, even Fairisle after a year or so. I still have one doll's jacket that I knitted in about 1957. It's in yellow garter stitch with my first attempts at Fairisle - she forgot to tell me that the Fairisle required stocking stitch, so you can imagine the result!!
And just to make this relevant to lace - of course my knitting ultimately lead to Shetland and knitted lace!
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