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Knit lace pattern shawl
This shawl was knit by Nicole H. Scalessa using size US7 needles and Lion Brand Shawl in a Ball Metallic Prism. The stitch is a feather and fan variation with lace stitch insert.
1970s Yellow Mohair Sweater
Description: Hand knitted Yellow Mohair Sweater, 1978, with V-neck, ties, cap sleeves.
Construction Details: knitted in flat pieces (back and front), seamed at sides and shoulders, with sleeve edges and neckband picked up after seaming to finish.…
Hand knit Scandinavian Folk Dolls
"Sven & Helga" are hand knitted dolls created by Judith Lasch of Middletown, New Jersey, in the year 2000. Judith created the dolls for her daughter, Callie, following a trip they had shared together to the Scandinavian countries. Folkloric…
Ballerina Bunny, hand knit doll
This Ballerina Bunny was created in celebration of many important apects of my life. I was raised in a household where giving and receiving handmade dolls was a very big part of our family culture. The joy of making them has never gone away and only…
Knitted mohair lace 3/4 length cropped sleeve cowl neck
This lovely creation was made for me by my beloved grandmother and cherished friend, Helen Rudewicz Pawlak Horan. It is an absolute honor to have received this tremendous gift from such a beautiful person in my life. When I'm wearing it, wrapped in…
Darning Eggs
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2 turned wood darning eggs, measuring 6" high and 11" high. Date and maker unknown. Condition: Fair to Good
I inherited these darning eggs from my paternal grandmother more than twenty years ago. She lived in Western Massachusetts…
Mismatched Shetland Mitts
Two right-handed, mismatched, fingerless mitts, ca. 1997 or later. Shetland wool, hand knitted in Shetland, UK. Maker or makers unknown at this time, pending further research. Possibly by the same maker, or not.
Traditional colorwork based on…
A mixed pale pinkish knitted cap
My mother's knitted gift to me one winter when I was still without any knit caps. Too girlish to be worn to work but I liked the colour mixtures and the quality of yarns. She added a matching floral broach to add some decorative element to it.
A pale blue cap and a stole
This was made by my friend for me using the yarn I had bought in Australia on a trip. It's mohair, mixed water blue and smokey purple colours. The cap has ribs for a better fit, and the stole must be worn with a brooch as it is short.
A multi-coloured snood
Mother made this for me when I needed something colorful to put on over around the neck of a colorless midnight navy blue A-line top to wear with skinny pants of white or light grey using whatever threads she had including feather type long haired…
Bicolor snood in red and beige
My mother made this so that I can wear with my colorless midnight navy blue woolen top that looks quite formal with skinny wool pants of white or beige. Adding this around the neck was to make it possible to wear it more casually. The technique is…
Houndstooth snood
My mother made this using three colors of thread. It’s small and matches with various colors of sweaters.
Baby pink untwisted snood
My mother Teruko Takahashi made this pale pink snood of elongated basket weave patterns with silk containing thread for an early spring use.
A purple stole with sequins
My mother’s creation of a stole knitted with small sequins. It came with matching fingerless gloves but I have lost the gloves.
Reversible Crocheted Snood
This was made for late autumnal wear. Has lots of holes for crocheting connecting diamond shapes. It’s reversible; mixed colors and solid red.
Dark blue shaded stole
A friend of mine made this as a gift for me. The thread was mine from somewhere in Tokyo’s Okadaya hobby Shop. A gradation in the thread automatically made the random pattern in the final product.
A Rainbow Snood
Knitted by my mother using a thin mohair thread of rainbow colors in a 7 color gradation. Knitted with a reverse in the middle of 14cm side.
Women's Cardigan with Embroidered Flowers and Gathered Waist
I made this cardigan in the late 1960s or early 1970s and cannot find the pattern source. The yarn is likely Red Heart or something similar from the period in a worsted weight. Small pink and green flowers are embroidered along the top of the…
My First Knitted Sweater
I knitted my first sweater, a pullover, at age 17. The pattern appeared in Ladies Circle Needlework magazine's Fall-Winter 1968 issue. It was likely made in Red Heart or a similar yarn of a worsted weight. I still have the sweater and the…
Knitted vest made by Anna Bell Bray, Shetland, UK
This is a man's vest made by Anna Bell Bray of Shetland, UK for my husband, Wade Lindsay, in late 1997 or early 1998. The vest is made of Jamieson and Smith Jumper Weight wool yarn in a combination of 11 dyed natural colors, solid colors, and tweeds…
Amigurumi squirrels and crochet woodland set
The Big Acorn Race is a 72-page crochet story and pattern book by Jennifer Olivarez that was published in 2016. The story follows the amigurumi characters from the crochet blog, Squirrel Picnic, as they compete to see who can get an acorn out of a…
Crocheted Donkey from 1980s
Sometime during the 1980s, my husband Alan and I were visiting friends in San Antonio, Texas. We went to a grocery store, and there among the vegetables were ceramic donkeys pulling carts. They were planters. They were very cute and not too…
Mr. Elsner's Knitted Kitties
Mr. Elsner was one of few men who arrived in my hometown of Schwarzenbach an der Saale, a town in Northern Bavaria, Germany, from the Russian Prisoner of War camps after World War II.
He couldn't go to his home in East Germany, which was newly…
Rippling Rainbow Shawl
This is the shawl made by designer Robert Powell for the book A Gathering of Lace (Meg Swansen & Elaine Rowley, XRX Books, 2000), pages 23-25.
It is a center-out shawl worked in Jamieson & Smith Jumperweight Shetland. The pattern is a…
Spindles, Peru
Spindles, Peru, 2017.
As an avid spinner, I was eager to bring home some spindles from our hiking trip to Peru in 2017. Our guide helped me find them during a visit to a weaving and textile cooperative called the Asociacion Civil Apu Salkantay,…