Today I completed my 500th pair of handwarmers for the Framework Knitters Museum. That's one thousand tubes knitted on the machine with the ribber in place, and one thousand hand knit thumbs picked up on 20 stitches for 8 rows. 160,000 stitches for the thumbs alone! 84 sts, 80 rows, for each tube equals 336,000 stitches, or 40,000 turns of the crank handle, and that's not counting the number of waste yarn rows or the times I have had to frog and repeat.
If I had been asked in December 2010 (when I started) to knit 500 pairs, I would have either fainted or said "no" (or both). But truly, it has not been a hardship and has raised oodles of money for this charming museum, my second home.
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
A thousand thumbs
Today I completed my 500th pair of handwarmers for the Framework Knitters Museum. That's one thousand tubes knitted on the machine with the ribber in place, and one thousand hand knit thumbs picked up on 20 stitches for 8 rows. 160,000 stitches for the thumbs alone! 84 sts, 80 rows, for each tube equals 336,000 stitches, or 40,000 turns of the crank handle, and that's not counting the number of waste yarn rows or the times I have had to frog and repeat.
If I had been asked in December 2010 (when I started) to knit 500 pairs, I would have either fainted or said "no" (or both). But truly, it has not been a hardship and has raised oodles of money for this charming museum, my second home.
Saturday, 15 June 2019
Knitting landing me in court?
Well, looks where knitting can lead you! Thanks to my volunteer work with the Framework Knitters Museum, first they get me Knitting In Public in the Library then the local Co-op. Then comes an invitation to lunch with the Sheriff of the City of London and the prospective new Mayor of London The Sheriff is a judge and the lunch will be these two and other judges at the Old Bailey!
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