Comments on: Where are they now? – Early knits edition

By: bells

bells — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:49:31 +0000

how wonderful you found it! That’s fantastic. (I too made a GS scarf for my dad – which he did actually wear I’m told, despite it being holey and crap!).

Our knitting history is so important. Lovely post.

By: drk

drk — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:59:00 +0000

I can’t believe you found that, what a great relic and memory. I don’t remember being taught to knit as a child but I must have been because when I picked it up as an adult my fingers seemed to remember what to do. But what I made then was nowhere near as good as your childhood effort!

By: Leonie

Leonie — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:49:00 +0000

That is very cool.

The one knit I remember particularly and which dates my knitting skills to approx 8 years of age is a pair of mittens I knit for my grade three teacher. I must have been good enough at that stage to read the pattern and do increases and decreases, etc. I wonder if he still has them……