Great Women Building a Gracious World
Volume 1, Issue 3
November/December 2006
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Great Women Building a Gracious World Volume 1, Issue 3 November/December 2006
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Fiber means fun, by Elizabeth Blake
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November/December Contributing Writers Sandra Bennett, Wendy Bernard, Pam Blasko, Cathy Clark, Kathy Fellows, Marni Harang, Joy Jannotti, Renee Lyons, Caryll McConnell, Shirley McNulty, Jane Plaughter, Margaret F. Rankin, Bobbie Ripperger, Joanne Seiff, Barbara Sheehey, Leslie Shelor, Teresa Simons, Sister Eugenia, Lynda Sorenson
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Editor: Sandra Bennett Publisher: Leslie Shelor
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Argyle Sock Anniversary Article by Shirley McNulty
It seems like I have been knitting forever. I learned to knit as a small child and as a little girl, I had the best dressed dolls around. I graduated from knitting doll clothes to argyle socks and I knit my first pair exactly 60 years ago, in 1946, for my father for Christmas. I was in 7th grade. I can remember buying an argyle sock kit at the local yarn store. I do not remember the name of the store, but I remember the location – on Watchung Avenue in Plainfield, New Jersey – on the right side of the street in the last block of Watchung Avenue before Front Street (the main downtown street at the time. )
After knitting this first pair of argyles, I was addicted to sock knitting. I had no problem knitting the foot on 4 needles or in working with bobbins. I loved it. After buying a few more kits, I then started designing my own socks and my father had the best dressed feet in town. I continually kept my father (who loved to get dressed up – he always put on a necktie for Sunday dinner), with a supply of hand knit socks. Later boy friends and eventually my husband also were the proud owners of hand knit argyle, plus plaid and diamond, socks. Some of these early socks also inadvertently became felted when they ended up by mistake in the washing machine.
I do not have a photo of any of my early argyle socks, but I have enclosed a photo of me taken in 2005, when I gave a program on a Career in Knitting for the Blue Ridge Fiber Guild (Fiber Femmes featured guild in your last issue). I am wearing a 100% Soy Silk Poncho and 100% Bamboo Skirt, patterns that I have designed for South West Trading Company. These can be found on www.soysilk.com.
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I have been kntting all
these years, especially in the past 35 years, when I started knitting and
teaching knitting professionally. Today I am a Knitwear Designer, Teacher,
Author, Lecturer and Tech Editor. I have had designs in several knitting
magazines and design for yarn companies, mainly South West Trading Company. I
am a member of AKD (Association of Knitwear Designers), TNNA (The National
Needle Arts Association), TKGA (The Knitting Guild Association) and the Blue
Ridge Fiber Guild. I have edited