Knitting blog: Yarn Harlot

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Digital Resources from the Knitting Reference Library WSA

From the University of Southampton website:
The Richard Rutt Collection at Winchester School of Art

Richard Rutt is a scholar and former bishop who is widely known for his classic book 'A history of hand knitting', published by Batsford in 1987. Rutt’s library of books, journals, magazines, patterns and cuttings specifically on knitting is held at Winchester School of Art Library. This follows his wish to donate his library to the University of Southampton in order to join it with Montse Stanley’s Knitting Collections as an acknowledgement of their shared interest in knitting and their consequent long standing friendship.

In the Loop

Fun! The University of Southampton has a knitting group, with a great website, AND they host knitting conferences.

Welcome to our website. We aim to be a focus for all those interested in the culture and practice of knitting whether for education, research or outreach to the local and internet community.

Silver's sock class

Hi,

This is probably the best sock tutorial out there, and if you follow it you'll end up with a sock for sure.

A big downfall of this tutorial is that the instructions are definitely for a woman's sock - casting on 64 stitches with fingering weight yarn will net you a typical ladies 7 -10 size sock. Most sock patterns for men usually have you casting on somewhere in the neighbourhood of 72 - 80 stitches depending on the yarn weight, the type of stitch you are doing and the size of your foot, but to really customize the sock you'd want to do a swatch with the yarn you intend to use, count how many stitches you get to the inch and then measure around the widest part of your foot in inches. Then cast on accordingly.

The other downfall is that Silver only gives you American needle sizes, not metric ones, and not all needles have both sizes stamped on them. That's a problem if you are buying needles from a no-service shop like Value village - so you might want to look the US sizes up on the internet first to figure out their metric equivalents..

By the way if you're are ever looking for good quality yet cheap sock yarn - check out Dressew downtown. They carry remaindered yarn for $2 a ball and every time I've been there they've had a great selection of top quality German sock yarns.

Anyway, if you are intrigued by what you see and/or need some help with something you know where I am. And don't forget about the expert knitter in your midst - Edita!

Cheers, Shawnna

Amazing Technicolour Quilt winner, Lucia Balabuk

Sara presented the quilt to Lucia Balabuk who works in the administration office of the Science One department located on the 3rd floor of the Learning Centre. She was really pleased - said she had no expectations of winning but was glad to contribute to Covenant House, and was glad to receive the quilt.

Amazing Technicolour Quilt finished!

Our 2010 project completed, and we successfully raised a large donation to Covenant House in Vancouver.