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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.…
Charles' Knitted Christmas Stocking
Mary Eugenia Thomas was born in 1921 in Electra, Texas. She went by the nickname “Gene.” Gene graduated from high school in Wichita Falls, Texas, and then from North Texas State University with a B. A. in Library Science.
Gene met her future…
Gene met her future…
Christmas Stocking
This Christmas stocking is one of a pair of stockings that Betty Lindsay, my mother-in-law, had knitted for me and my sister-in-law when we joined the family. The pattern is the Victorian Stocking Pattern by Valerie Root, published in Better Homes…
Design Proposal for I-Cord Embellished Sweater
To propose knit/crochet projects for publication, I have made many swatches and sketches since the early 1990s. This one was probably for a publication of Bond America, a company that marketed and sold a hobby knitting machine and a mechanical…
Dog Blanket with a Mosaic Knit Border
Hannah, Flower, and Annie (not pictured here) were pack mates at the Austin, Texas, home of Charles Frederick and Suzann Thompson beginning in the late 1980s. When Suzann finished knitting a blanket with a mosaic-knit, dog patterned trim, the dogs…
Hand Knitted Mosaic Star Blanket for a Dog
I made this blanket for my dog, who loves beautiful handmade things. How do I know this? I know because he has been getting up to cuddle on the things I am making for others -- especially the blankets I have been making recently.
This blanket is…
This blanket is…
Izzy Style Knit Doll with Pussycat Hat
Izzy style doll. Knit in the round with worsted acrylic yarn, stuffed with fiber fill.
Lace Knitted Lampshade
The black ceramic lamp and its six-sided lampshade came from an estate sale. Not only was the lamp attractive, the shade was perfect for a knitted cover. From the top, the shade’s frame angled gently to a wider lower edge. The natural stretchiness of…
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…
Pussycat Hat 2024 Version
Pussycat hat 2024 version. Knit in the round with bulky acrylic yarn held double
Square Doily Knitted from a Pattern Published in 1848
My husband Charles was scheduled for long-overdue knee replacement surgery. I needed a small, relatively simple project to work on while we were at the hospital during both his knee replacement surgeries and recovery. A knitted doily seemed the…