#knitted stockings

[professorpski]

Piecework, Fall 2022

Piecework magazine offers both historical articles on needlework and instructions with patterns for some of items featured. I must say I always feel the ones with patterns are the best although I have not yet made any of them.

For the instructions, we have the tatted doilies are drawn from an 1889 called Weldon’s Practical Tatting and Katrina King suggests more modern uses like earrings for the smallest motifs and wedding veil for larger ones. The long cream kilt stockings, from ones worn by men who wore breeches instead of long pants, are adaptations from 18th Century Cape Breton Island examples. Barbara Kelly-Landry offers full instructions and she and Annamarie Hatcher recount the history of such stockings and how men’s calves used to be an object of interest for their shape. Yes, women ogled men’s calves. Maybe that it why it is my favorite pattern in this issue. ;-) The other pattern is for the colorwork sleeves you see here which were a separate part of traditional Macedonian clothing according to Ali Giles-Damjanovska in one of two articles on that tradition. Plus an early American sampler pattern is included.

Then, there are historical articles with information and inspiration but without patterns. So there is one on bobbin lace from Puerto Rico by Diana P. Martinez Rodriguez from which this christening gown image is taken. I thought it was crochet at first glance which may explain the popularity of crochet trim in the late 19th and early 20th century: its ability to mimic lace. There are more articles including one on patchwork quilts from India, on early European couching stitch embroidery, and a dress created by someone in a mental asylum, and no, I am not making that last one up.

You can find it at your local bookstore or newsstand or online here: https://pieceworkmagazine.com/subscription/

[knittinghistory]

A modern day recreation of medieval Egyptian stockings - some of the earliest extant examples of knitting. This pair was knitted by Chris Laning, who also designed the pattern, which is available to purchase on Ravelry.

[cuppatealove]

I finished the quilt!

(Pattern)

The light's terrible, but I couldn't wait until morning to post!!

[egophiliac]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE HEADCANONS!! jade and kalim are my favorite characters and they in particular gave me so much joy. out of curiosity, whats your favorite way to knit? :) -the previous anon

I do continental and I will forever be a magic loop stan (magic loop >>>> dpns and I will die on this hill). I used to be a REALLY prolific knitter, always had something cast on, and there was one year where I somehow managed to make several pairs of (ravelry link) Fireweeds socks in the space of like a month for holiday presents. but I have early-onset arthritis and it started to really hurt my fingers, so I fell off and don't do nearly as much anymore. :(

mostly what I do these days is mini projects, like little lace panels or doll clothes/accessories that I can finish relatively quickly. I might not have the time or ability to do, like, full colorwork socks anymore, but I still like making stuff!

[helimir]

"Nine women can't make a baby in a month!" - Taliesin Jaffe

Jester's Eiselcross stockings, handknit by me! @ionarts_cosplay on Instagram

Jester commissioned these stockings in Rexxentrum over (I think) a single day. Taliesin's joke always stuck with me because there's really no way to speed up knitting - these took me two months to design a pattern and knit. The opportunity to attend the Echoes of the Solstice live show inspired me to knit the stockings, and knitting them inspired me to take on the rest of this challenging cosplay! Who knew painting yourself blue could be so fun?

[new-ace-on-the-block]

A really important part of pattern writing is testing, which has been going on today. I have made a few adjustments to the length calculations based on this test run

Tiny Dinosaur on scales for scale

I really love how these colours go together in a scattered gradient, there are five different colours but aside from the fairly clear bronze zone they blend quite subtly!

Do you love to colour of the gloves?

[satans-knitwear]

Big fan of the colour purple. Also, the bodysuit under here is cute as heck. 💜

Treat me ~ Tip me

[buttercupyarnart]

Me? Starting work on my holiday presents less than 20 days out due to worsted-weight yarn and overconfidence? It's more likely than you think!

(I only have two presents to make. This one is a stocking for my cousin who spends Christmas with us. I picked colors to match his usual choice in nail polish, blue with an orange accent. The other will be a crocheted scarf for my dad, who loves crocheted scarves. Worst case scenario, I'll finish the stocking and show my dad the scarf WIP on the day.)

[ub-sessed]

I have knit the world's cutest sock.

[woollywooloo]

Nobody warned me that when you start spinning your own yarn, you just lose all interest in commercial yarn.

[sleepnoises]

ive decided to become very bad at knitting as a change from my previous state of doesn't knit. knitn't if you will. i spent an hour on this last night and am not directly inspired by the trout post

[milkweedman]

For how simple these socks look, it's kinda aggravating how long they took to make. All told I probably knit 4 or 5 socks pit together because I kept frogging them. The "how do I make a toe that doesn't have hard creases with so few stitches (34)" thing caused me to frog the toes many times, but then after that I kept messing up other things (forgetting the last round of toe increases so the whole body was 2 stitches smaller than its pair, for example). Glad to be done with them, I really hope they fit my sister.

[motorharp]

I realized when I was taking progress photos that I might be able to stitch them together into a gif. Note I said "might".

[scavengedluxury]

Knitwear ad, 1967. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[ohhgingersnaps]

i think i need to start approaching my other creative projects with the same reckless, hopeful, totally unfounded confidence i use when browsing patterns on ravelry

do i have the experience required for this pattern? no, but i can figure it out, probably. do the balls of yarn i possess match the suggested yardage? nah, but who really needs their pullover to be that long, anyway. they recommend like a thousand-ish yards but i'll bet i can do it in 500 if i halve the torso and use the wrong needle size

[kirby-the-gorb]