Grandma’s Books
These include a few Tatting books and a “Learn to” books that include several needlearts including knitting.
Several “Learn to” books that contain various combinations of needlearts, though I think all include both kniting and crochet. At least one of them contains Hairpin Lace so I can use that frame I got 
There is also an easy glove and mitten book.
Some of the heavier items of the 41-lb box were these two big Reader’s Digest books.
This one had me hitting the roof! I had it on my b-day list but no one got it for me. Turns out my mom had given this 1971 copy to my grandmother as a gift and now it’s mine! Yeah!
Yet more tatting books (for someone who “never got the hand of tatting” she sure had a lot of books on the subject, LOL)! And a couple more knitting ones.
There were also various photocopied handout sort of books from community ed classes and such, but they aren’t so pretty so I didn’t photograph those
In Knitting Progress…
I’m poking along on the green socks. I’ve been having back crafting karma the last couple days and kept dropping stitches for some reason so I just set it aside for the moment. I casted on for the lemon hat I’m designing for my mom’s cousin’s little girl she just adopted. Only problem with that one is it’s Bernot Cottontots so I can’t do more than ten or so rows a day because of the lack of give in the yarn. So, while I was at knitting tea at Lambspun yesterday I picked out the wooks to full for mom and Amber’s felted Bottoms Up Bucket Hats they “ordered” (for Christmas) so I cast on for my sister’s yesterday and learned the joys of knitting with mohair, LOL! I picked up a small darker grey mohair to put into her brim as she had shown me some fuzzy multi-toned grey yarn, but it wasn’t felt-able. I had been getting a fair bit knit because I was burning audible.com books to CD for my mom and its a great thing to do while my computer is tied up burning CDs.
When you get the hang of lace tatting, bring the frame, etc to the SnB on Mon. night sometime. I have no clue how that would all look. Felting my cell pnone bag tonight (with any luck). See ya! delta
Comment by Delta — 7/7/2004 @ 11:20 am
What a great batch of goodies! You are so lucky and I can only imagine how much fun you are going to have.
Comment by Kathy — 7/7/2004 @ 7:37 pm
Wow! That green-and-red “Learn How” book was my introduction to knitting at age 8! That brought back memories
Comment by Amy — 7/8/2004 @ 10:37 am
Wow, how cool to those books! Extra cool that they were your grandmothers!
Comment by froggy — 7/11/2004 @ 4:34 am