Bev wrote:
<Instead of knitting tiny rectangles for the dog's legs, make them as
tubes, in knitted cord for instance.>
Not only could you make the tubular bits with a circular needle, but with a
knitting dolly - a wooden cotton reel or similar with the appropriate number
of small nails around the centre hole. I used to make yards of the stuff as
a child and did actually once make two coils sewn together to make a bag.
Never did find another use for it.
David wrote:
<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.>
When I went to look round my first school at the age of 4, the 7-year-old
girl who showed me round said "..... and they teach you to knit." I never
forgot that and was so disappointed that they never did. Fortunately my
mother did instead and I could knit well by the time I was 7. The only
knitted lace I ever did was for baby shawls.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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