Comments on: Ethnic Knitting Discovery http://knittingasfastasican.com/2007/ethnic-knitting-discovery/ Follow my unending quest to knit up my fiber stash. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:18:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Donna Druchunas http://knittingasfastasican.com/2007/ethnic-knitting-discovery/#comment-7934 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:32:23 +0000 http://knittingasfastasican.com/2007/ethnic-knitting-discovery/#comment-7934 Hi Carol, Don't get me started on Lithuania! :) I'm also planning another book completely about Lithuanian knitting. I spent a week in Kaunas and Vilnius this summer, and will be going back next year for about six weeks for language school and to do research for that book. I'm really excited about it and can hardy wait to get working on it! I will have an article about this in the Jan/Feb 2008 issue of Piecework. There's one book about Lithuanian knitted mittens that's available in English and Lithuanian (both in one book). It's called Lietuvininku pirstines: Kulturu kryzkeleje (Gloves of Lithuania Minor: at the cross-roads of cultures). There are no patterns, but there area lot of charts. Sometimes it shows up on ebay with gloves misspelled as "glowes". I'm not aware of any other English language book with much information about Lithuanian knitting. There's one pair of socks in Folk Socks and one pair of gloves in Mary Thomas's Knitting Book. Hi Carol, Don’t get me started on Lithuania! :)

I’m also planning another book completely about Lithuanian knitting. I spent a week in Kaunas and Vilnius this summer, and will be going back next year for about six weeks for language school and to do research for that book. I’m really excited about it and can hardy wait to get working on it! I will have an article about this in the Jan/Feb 2008 issue of Piecework.

There’s one book about Lithuanian knitted mittens that’s available in English and Lithuanian (both in one book). It’s called Lietuvininku pirstines: Kulturu kryzkeleje (Gloves of Lithuania Minor: at the cross-roads of cultures). There are no patterns, but there area lot of charts. Sometimes it shows up on ebay with gloves misspelled as “glowes”.

I’m not aware of any other English language book with much information about Lithuanian knitting. There’s one pair of socks in Folk Socks and one pair of gloves in Mary Thomas’s Knitting Book.

]]> by: Carol http://knittingasfastasican.com/2007/ethnic-knitting-discovery/#comment-7933 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:39:58 +0000 http://knittingasfastasican.com/2007/ethnic-knitting-discovery/#comment-7933 I too, am making room on the bookshelf for these! This will be the 1st opportunity to have a pattern from one side of my heritage. I mean really, where are we going to get our hands on patterns from Lithuania? Yay! I too, am making room on the bookshelf for these! This will be the 1st opportunity to have a pattern from one side of my heritage. I mean really, where are we going to get our hands on patterns from Lithuania? Yay!

]]> by: Marcia http://knittingasfastasican.com/2007/ethnic-knitting-discovery/#comment-7932 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:12:08 +0000 http://knittingasfastasican.com/2007/ethnic-knitting-discovery/#comment-7932 Thanks for this, Susan! I'm making room on my bookshelves as we speak. Don't know about knitting with baseball bats, though.... Thanks for this, Susan! I’m making room on my bookshelves as we speak. Don’t know about knitting with baseball bats, though….

]]> by: Donna Druchunas http://knittingasfastasican.com/2007/ethnic-knitting-discovery/#comment-7930 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:11:15 +0000 http://knittingasfastasican.com/2007/ethnic-knitting-discovery/#comment-7930 For my first book, The Knitted Rug, I did a lot of knitting with size 17 and 19 needles, but I never found any needles this huge! These are actually made out of wooden dowels, and they're used for knitting rugs with about 20 strands of yarn held together, or fat strips of fabric. I found them in England when I was teaching at Woolfest last summer. They were being sold by fiber artist Ingrid Wagner. (Her website is http://www.ingridwagner.com/ ). I wanted to buy a pair but I was afraid I wouldn't be able to bring them home on the plane, so I bought a shorter pair, about 2 feet long, that I could mail home in a tube. For my first book, The Knitted Rug, I did a lot of knitting with size 17 and 19 needles, but I never found any needles this huge! These are actually made out of wooden dowels, and they’re used for knitting rugs with about 20 strands of yarn held together, or fat strips of fabric.

I found them in England when I was teaching at Woolfest last summer. They were being sold by fiber artist Ingrid Wagner. (Her website is http://www.ingridwagner.com/ ). I wanted to buy a pair but I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to bring them home on the plane, so I bought a shorter pair, about 2 feet long, that I could mail home in a tube.

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