[lace-chat] Re: Mittens on small folks

2004-12-26 Thread Lynn Carpenter
Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

[lace-chat] Re: Mittens on small folks

2004-12-22 Thread outi.rissanen
Hello everyone, I think I'm few days late for the discussion, but felt I need to comment this anyway. I have been reading with a strange feeling your writings where you give the impresson that mittens are for children only. I wear mittens daily during winter time. I feel they are much warmer

[lace-chat] Re: Mittens on small folks

2004-12-20 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: Mittens

2004-12-18 Thread Jane Viking Swanson
Hi All, When I was in my late 20s my sister gave me some beautiful bright green knitted mittens with bright embroidery on them. They had a wide cuff and were so big I couldn't stick them in the pocket of my coat. I didn't want to lose them so I put them on a string! Besides not losing them

[lace-chat] RE: mittens

2004-12-17 Thread Helen Bell
I concur with Ruth about trying to get a toddler's fingers into the correct holes. I couldn't with the first one, and couldn't with the 2nd, so they wore mittens. Didn't seem to affect the playing in the nsow too much. Now they're 9 and 6 1/2 and wear gloves. Funnily enough, I have some