I have just discovered that my local library has a Miss Silver mystery book by Patricia Wentworth so I put a hold on it!
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My detective, Harold Edison, has been wielding his knitting needles for years, knitting in bed, often in the dark, and I have not yet decided if this is a fact known by family other than Polly, his wife. So it was with interest that I came across the mysteries of Patricia Wentworth with her Miss Silver who solves crimes and knits as she does so. They take place in the forties and fifties in England; I am enjoying them a great deal. There is mention of how Maud knits (Continental style, hands low in lap), what she is making (clothing for her niece's children), difficulty in getting wool due to the War (limited colour choice distresses her and at one point she considers a wool substitute but decides it will not be warm enough so uses dull grey wool in a child's outfit but trims it with overly bright green yarn). She is continually drawing up the wool. Her knitting bag is described in each book. Her needles must be metal because they click.
I have learned a new knitting term! Depended. Her work "depends" from her needles.
Posted on November 25, 2006 at 07:37 AM
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