Janedon't apologise for talking about Piecework magazine. This Scot is
most grateful to you as she now knows to ask for her copy at her newsagent
and keep asking until it finally arrives :-)
Patricia in Wales
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Hi All, The new Piecework magazine came last Saturday and they have an
addition to our discussion of mittens. There is an article on knitted
Danish wristlets, little tubes to fill the gap between coat and mittens
though the model is wearing them with bare hands.
I was thinking of you all today
Hi Janice,
Oh dear! Your message brought back such memories ...
I went to a grammar school in Cardiff, in South Wales, and the uniform
included the liberty bodice with the suspenders to hook our (dark green)
lisle stockings to, a pair of white cotton knickers, and over those a pair
of dark
I had a pair of knitted gloves which had an extra bit attached at the back
of the base of the fingers that could be pulled over the fingers to make
them into mittens. Really warm when it was very cold because of the two
layers of gloves inside mittens, but useful in being able to flip the mitten
Joy wrote: My cycling mittens are split into two fingers: warmer than gloves,
but you can still work the brake levers. A friend called them thalidomide
mittens - -- thalidomide was in the news at the time.
My DH wears them even when not riding his back as they are warmer than gloves.
I
: Monday, December 20, 2004 9:34 AM
Subject: [lace-chat] mittens
Joy wrote: My cycling mittens are split into two fingers: warmer than
gloves, but you can still work the brake levers. A friend called them
thalidomide mittens - -- thalidomide was in the news at the time.
My DH wears them even
Does anyone remember having to wear navy blue nickers for playing netball?
It was an all girls school but the boys hung around the railings when we
were playing!
Janice
Yes - actually they were required for all gym / P.E. lessons (and in the
days of mini-skirts one had to wear them the rest of
Can anyone explain why children always have to wear mittens and not real
gloves??
mittens keep your hands warmer than gloves - also they are easier and quicker
to knit - in my experienceg
jenny barron
NE Scotland where it is snowing and I am hoping for a white Christmas
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But I loved mittens!!! - they kept your hands much warmer than gloves did.
Probably because your fingers were all together not separate.
Sue
That makes sense... But what age are we talking about here? I was still
wearing
mittens in 1st-3rd grades, and I find it hard to imagine that children
At 08:36 AM 12/18/04 -0400, Margot Walker wrote:
As someone who grew up in northern Canada, the reasons we wore mittens
as children, and still wear mittens occasionally as adults are: 1 -
they're much warmer than gloves and 2- if it is really cold (minus 20 or
colder), you can wear two pairs
There are a couple of reasons for mittens rather than gloves beyond
the difficulty of fitting each finger into the proper slot:
1) The space between the fingers when the hand is held naturally is a
heck of a lot thinner on a small child, so a glove thick enough to
keep hands warm outside (as
Hi All,
Ruth wrote:
Dear Bev,
Your question brought back memories! Let me say upfront that I understand
the need for strings to connect mittens, especially for a young child, but
as a young child, I *hated* having a string
To keep my little hands warm in an English winter, I had a pair of
And now they don't recommend strings - at least not the kind that run from
one mitten to the other through the coat, because of the danger of
strangulation. We sometimes used the commercial mitten clips - two grips of
the sort used for suspenders connected by a short piece of wide elastic. Or
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