I have finished a sample of Fringe Pattern Knitting from Miss Lambert’s My Knitting Book (1843, First Series). Although the pattern is short, it still took me a few tries to get it right (I think!). The toughest part for me was figuring out how what Miss Lambert meant by “turn the wool round theContinue reading “MKB Project 12: Fringe Pattern Knitting FO”
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MKB Project 11: A Brioche Update
I am super excited that I have finally finished the knitted part of my Brioche! If you recall, several weeks ago now, I began working on a Brioche, the eleventh pattern in Miss Lambert’s My Knitting Book (1843, First Series, pp22-23). The Brioche is a type of cushion that was also known as a Moorish orContinue reading “MKB Project 11: A Brioche Update”
1840s Snapshot
As I work through the patterns in Miss Lambert’s My Knitting Book, published in 1843, I find myself thinking a lot about what life was like for my own family at the time. I have traced my family tree back to the 1840s on several sides and thought it would be interesting to take aContinue reading “1840s Snapshot”
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