So rächt sich die Fledermaus!

Well. Perhaps this is next year's Halloween costume:

Historic Pattern Help

I have several other content-rich things to write about, so of course I'm going to talk about coats.

A Congress of Purple Crones

This was passed along the Historic Knit list, and is too marvelously weird not to share. The following passage comes from The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean, by Fitz Hugh Ludlow.

Another flower basket bag

or reticule or whatever you want to call it.

Maybe Not So Idiotic

Most modern knitters are familiar with the concept of 'idiot cord,' or 'i-cord,' so named by Elizabeth Zimmermann, who is credited with 'accidentally discovering' it.

Nothing To Disclose Her Identity

I love that the NY Times opened their online archives. One can while away the hours rummaging through the old articles with a few simple keyword searches.

Knitting as an employment

Another historical knitting sighting, this time in The American Frugal Housewife, by Lydia M. Child (also author of "Hobomok," "The Mother's Book," Editor of the "Juvenile Miscellany," &c., for those who would seek out the further wisdom of this lady), published in 1832.

Well, Looky Here

I found something that combines historic knitting, historic cooking, and Victorian England all in one paragraph. It's like a perfect teacup tempest of my particular brand of gothic weirdness.

Nightcaps

Amos Plimpton, whoever else he was, was a man with excellent nightcaps.

If I knit a big enough blanket, I won't need to put my head in the sand

I have my mail set to deliver Merry Rose traffic into its own folder, and I know better than to open that folder this week. I've said as much as I want to say on the subject on the Bright Hills list. The only thing I'll add is that for me the SCA has become a question of whether the fun outweighs the BS, and lately, it hasn't. If you've been wondering why I haven't been out at events, that's why.