https://www.snapdragonlife.com/blogs/blog/ A fuzzylime (cms+) autogenerated channel feed. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss fuzzylime (cms+) https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/knitting-victorian-mittens-and-what-they-taught-me-that-reading-couldnt/#comment1614 Unknown user https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/knitting-victorian-mittens-and-what-they-taught-me-that-reading-couldnt/#comment1614 Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:23:47 +0100 https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/knitting-victorian-mittens-and-what-they-taught-me-that-reading-couldnt/#comment1607 In reply to Sue LaverackThere is a character in Vanity Fair (Rose, Lady Crawley) who is described as always knitting an interminable thing with worsted - obviously this is set about 1820s so much earlier and also a little anachronistic - but her filling the house with knitted counterpanes is used as a symbol of the way she has nothing else to do, of her being irrelevant to her children and husband. She would have been very well employed knitting a fascinator I think. I'm guessing it also fitted the 'mindless knitting' of the kind I now do when in the car, train or watching tv. Something to keep the hands moving rather than something to concentrate on in con tract to the very complicated patterns elsewhere in the book. J x]]> Katie https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/knitting-victorian-mittens-and-what-they-taught-me-that-reading-couldnt/#comment1607 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:19:40 +0100 https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/knitting-victorian-mittens-and-what-they-taught-me-that-reading-couldnt/#comment1606 In reply to Ann WharmbyI have lots of the red yarn so I may well use it for cheerful stockings! I do wonder if mitts were always coverings for gloves in the past . . . .]]> Katie https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/knitting-victorian-mittens-and-what-they-taught-me-that-reading-couldnt/#comment1606 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:13:48 +0100 https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/knitting-victorian-mittens-and-what-they-taught-me-that-reading-couldnt/#comment1605 In reply to CHRISTINE FLIGHTThanks Christine - I am headed to Bath next month to do some research on a side project and was very disappointed to find that the Museum of Costume is presently closed! Though there seems to be many other museums to see. J x]]> Katie https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/knitting-victorian-mittens-and-what-they-taught-me-that-reading-couldnt/#comment1605 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:12:46 +0100 https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/knitting-victorian-mittens-and-what-they-taught-me-that-reading-couldnt/#comment1604 Unknown user https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/knitting-victorian-mittens-and-what-they-taught-me-that-reading-couldnt/#comment1604 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:20:40 +0100 https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/knitting-victorian-mittens-and-what-they-taught-me-that-reading-couldnt/#comment1603 Unknown user https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/knitting-victorian-mittens-and-what-they-taught-me-that-reading-couldnt/#comment1603 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:51:08 +0100 https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/knitting-victorian-mittens-and-what-they-taught-me-that-reading-couldnt/#comment1602 Unknown user https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/knitting-victorian-mittens-and-what-they-taught-me-that-reading-couldnt/#comment1602 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:30:35 +0100