Towards the end of the (first) book, it appears that Sister Monica Joan
is putting on an elaborate act to get attention, but then an incident
happens that convinces the others as to her real state of mind and that
she is, in fact, suffering from dementia. However, there is reference to
her doing a lot of knitting, some of it lacy requiring three needles.
From my time of working in the props department of the BBC in
Birmingham, (1981-1984) I know that sometimes the script calls for half
completed garments for members of the cast to be working on - I was
asked to knit half a sleeve for an episode of Angels, but not all props
clerks can knit! It wouldn't be possible for the actual work you see on
screen to be produced during filming, and not all actresses (no matter
how old the make up makes them appear!!!) can, or want to, produce their
own props. The reference in the book to lacy knitting, and working with
three needles, may have been beyond the skills of those concerned. I
expect the crochet square was chosen because it gave the look of being
lacy, and whereas, because they are fairly common, there may have been a
crochet blanket held in the props store, there wouldn't have been time
to commission a knitted one! As for interns, there were none in the time
I worked for the BBC - and I doubt even now that the overall programme
budget allows for any - all props that we didn't already hold in store
were hired or bought by the buyer assigned to the programme - and at
Pebble Mill in the 1980s the buyers were all middle aged or older.
In message <[email protected]>, [email protected] writes
I would have given them the benefit of the doubt, ie. Sister Monica Joan
demented, and Trixie and Jenny knitting some alternative block or filling
area, except that in the end they join the blocks with a needle and give it
to Chummy, and there is absolutely no knitting in the finished product.
I guess the props department had obtained the granny squares somewhere and
they had to use them. They probably sent an intern out to a flea market.
Devon
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Jane Partridge
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