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McKnittey Musings — vintage

Hollywood Knitting - Dale Evans

Posted by Kelli Ladwig on

Well, I do not know if Dale Evans was a knitter or not, but she really looks smashing in this hand-knit sweater. Dale was born in 1912 in Uvalde, Texas. Anecdotal evidence would support the premise she was a knitter as most women if that era learned sewing, knitting and other handcrafts as a necessity.

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Hollywood Knitting - Ginger Rogers

Posted by Kelli Ladwig on

Fellow Texan Ginger Rogers knitting away on Swing Time. Ginger moved to Ft. Worth as a child.

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Vintage Find Friday

Posted by Kelli Ladwig on

When I was visiting my grandparents in Missouri, my grandmother was super-enthused about her latest bargain. A friend of hers moved into a nursing home and gave away everything she could not fit in to their church to be sold and the money earmarked for overseas missions. Granny just had to go to the sale because there was a sewing machine for sale. NOTE: Apple does not fall far from the tree ... possible sewing machine to purchase AND it goes to a good cause. Score!

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Vintage Find Friday

Posted by Kelli Ladwig on

My friend Jeni scored the cutest knitting notion for me. It is a Raglan Sweater Wheel. You run across these wheels in games and children's books. You rotate a paper wheel behind or inside another paper wheel and line up words, pictures, or symbols and gives you an answer. I am sure there is a technical term for this device. If you know it, let me know. Well, in this case, it dials up a formula for a raglan sweater.

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