I've treated myself to a couple of little things that were on my Christmas list, but which no one had bought for me.
The first was the Harvest teapot by Mark's and Spencer's, which Musicgirl posted on my thread 'Does anyone else have a passion for Teapots?' I do have a passion for teapots and fell in love with it when I saw it in the photo🤗. And she's right - it does make a super cup of tea!
Then when I put up a thread: 'I'm thinking of buying a yarn bowl', Greyduster mentioned a beehive shaped yarn holder that her mother used to use. Intruiged, I set off on a journey of discovery and found them selling on ebay. They were made of bakelite. I liked the look of it and wondered who might have used it all those years ago 🤔. I showed it to hubby, who likes anything vintage and without my knowing, he bought it for me. What a lovely surprise.
Finally, I treated myself to a tension yarn ring, which I had only just learnt about. So I've been having great fun with the yarn holder and tension ring. The tension ring takes the hard work out of crocheting. No more cramped fingers. And my cat can't tamper with the wool 😄🙀.
So have you, or anyone else, treated you since Christmas?
SueDonim
Wow, Fairycakes I’ve been enlightened! I have terrible problems with tension in crochet (but not knitting) so a ring might be just the ticket. Thank you for introducing them to me.
Primrose the gauge on the right, are they Mabel Lucy Atwell children? They’re beautiful.
Yes, Mabel Lucy Attwell children. It is so cute. I had a few but sold some. They now fetch high prices but I used to get them really cheap.
Here are some of my bell shaped gauges and a few odd ones in plastic.
The oldest ones are Victorian and the needles sizes go as far as size 28 which is incredibly fine. So the greater number of needle sizes the older the gauge. These are mostly nickel on brass. As fine work became less popular so the gauges had less holes. They were available (sometimes free) from yarn manufacturers and the later plastic ones were free with knitting magazines or by door to door sellers.
I used to collect the plastic or casein knitting boxes which had holes in the top to check your needle size but I sold them all as they were rather bulky to store.
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