Picked up an incredibly interesting book at the Centre for Knitting & Crochet on Saturday. Its Icelandic Knitting Using Rose Patterns by Helene Magnusson. She has her own website (hername and dot com). Half the book is research on these wonderful little knitted items which used to be made to fit their soft shoes about a century ago. The other half is new patterns for garments and accessories using the patterns found within them. No actual pattern for a shoe insert itself, so I emailed the author, who wrote back instantly that she didn't think about it until the book 
was well on its way to being published. She then Googled for my name and came up with another person with my name in New York who is also a knitter nad wants to improve her French! Really uncanny, a sort of Internet doppelganger.Anyway, I have made a trial insert, a proper pair with stripes to get the sizing right, and am halfway through a pair with a complicated pattern in the middle. Pix later. In the meantime, have done a mini-pair and joined them together for a scissors holder. Should make a good workshop.
