What's a poetry mitten?
This excerpt comes from the Knitting Daily site
In the January/February 2008 issue of PieceWork magazine, Veronica Patterson told us about a fascinating knitting tradition in early America: Women would choose a favorite poem, and knit the text into their mittens. There are several examples of these charming mittens in the Smithsonian, and so Veronica and Jane Fournier decided to knit up a modern version for the PieceWork audience. That mitten pattern made that issue one of our most popular back-issues ever.
That's when we decided to have the poetry contest, so we could have a pattern inspired by YOU.
Our newly updated pattern PDF contains the full instructions and charts for the 2008 PieceWork mittens, as well as an all-new chart for Anglea's winning poem-knit-into-mittens. We've also included Veronica's article on the history (and the mystery!) of poetry mittens, plus photos of everything because photos are the best part!"
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To read more: http://www.knittingdaily.com/blogs/daily/archive/2009/01/14/here-come-the-poetry-mittens.aspx
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