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Wool and Knitting
" Not only was knitting a source of much needed income for the poor (especially in rural communities) but also a craft that brought people together. Moving on rotation from house to house in the evening, knitters (both men and women) would sit in the dark (the candles snuffed out to preserve the wax) and exchange gossip and tell stories. Knitting songs, like sea shanties, were sung to pass the time and encourage the knitters to greater speed."
Wordsworth writes in 'Michael', (1800):
'.....while far into the night
The housewife plied her own peculiar work,
Making the cottage through the silent hours
Murmur as with the sound of summer flies.'
When to start knitting?
Well, I learned how to knit from my mom when I was in 4th grade. That was a good activity for the cold winters in a city in northern Romania . I think you are ready, just give it a try.
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Knitting Techniques
