Beverley Oz
Leeds, United Kingdom
Shortly before Christmas I took up knitting again after an absence of about 20 years. I've been knitting since I was around 7 years old; the little old lady next door – we called her Auntie Louie – taught me to knit in front of the coal fired range in her kitchen. My first knitting project was a purse in royal blue DK at Primary School, aged around seven or eight, way back in the mid-1960s.
Best knitting moment? Probably just after I graduated from Uni in 1980. I was on the dole, living in a wonderful flat with two students, and would knit away in our dump of a living room, sitting against the radiator on a patchwork beanbag which I'd also made, with my cat Lynyrd chasing the balls of knitting wool when she wasn't watching the resident ghost walk up the long-removed staircase (but that's another story...). I'd buy the knitting yarn from the local market, whatever was going cheap of the time. Mostly I knitted Patricia Roberts knitting patterns - I was, and still am, wild about Patric
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- Knitting15 Skills
Knitting: Over 50 years
15 Skills
- Cast on & bind off
- Knit and purl stitches
- Simple increase & decrease
- Picking up stitches
- Fair Isle
- Lace Work
- Knitting in the round
- Turn a heel
- Double knitting
- Ribbed
- Garter
- Stocking
- Slipped stitches
- Cables
- Intarsia
