Look what I found.....

While sorting through some of my Mum's knitting stuff.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_counter_(hand_knitting)
Scroll down to complex row counters and you'll see it...... There's only one in the Victoria and Albert Museum ! Just started using it and it's brilliant, all you knitters will appreciate it I think !

Linda that looks very handy. You might be sitting on an antique of the future if not already.

THATS BLOODY FANTASTIC LINDA I LOVE OLD THINGS LIKE THAT IM NOT SURE BUT I SAW SOMETHING SIMILAR WHEN I WORKED FOR PATON & BALDWINS WHEN I LEFT SCHOOL SO PLEASED YOU CAN USE IT LUV IT XXXX

It really is very handy Babs now that I've figured out how to use it ! It not only counts rows, but counts the number of sticthes that you need to increases or decrease by and the number of times that you need to increase or decrease. If you look at the link you'll see it was made in 1936, reckon my Mum will have picked it up for 0.50 p in a charity shop, she used to love browsing through them all xxx

Ooh Maz, Patons and Baldwins, could have a field day there now , have Baldwins died a death now, you only seem to hear of Patons these days ? What did you used to do there ?

DONT KNOW LUV TO BE HONEST I WENT THERE STRAIGHT FROM SCHOOL AT 14 3/4 I WAS A DOGS BODY FOR THE FIRST FEW WEEKS WAS IN & OUT OF OFFICES FACTORY THERE WERE SAMPLE KNITTERS THATS WHERE I THINK I SAW THAT MACHINR THEN I WORKED ON HANKWINDING & REWINDS BLOODY HARD WORK ALL PEACE WORK THEN XXXX

Wow, that is amazin Linda - fancy your mum Avignon it tucked away and you never knew, bless her. But what a lovely find, and something you can use all the time and be reminded of her xxxxxxx

Ooh Sal you've gone all French on me with your Avingon

Le sel peut tourner sa main al a plupart des choses.

ALL I KNOW IS BONJOUR TOLLE MONDE LOL XXX

SallyDee wrote:Wow, that is amazin Linda - fancy your mum Avignon it tucked away and you never knew, bless her. But what a lovely find, and something you can use all the time and be reminded of her xxxxxxx

Bloody soddin iPad and predictive spelling - shame it doesn't speak proper sense instead of trying to read your bloody mind while you are typing xxxxxxxxx

XXX

I'll own up now I googled it.
This is the translation.

Le sel peut tourner sa main al a plupart des choses.

Sal can turn her hand to a majority of things.

or something like that.

Oh Babs, you crack me up huni lol - but thank you for that, oh but if it were only true xxxxxxx

PMSL BUT YOU ARE CLEVER SALLY XXX

Yes she is VERY!!!!

Behave yourselves you two or I won't get me hat on me heed will be that big xxxxxxx

Well we are only stating the truth Sal.

VERY TRUE BABS SHES A SWEETHEART TOO XXXX

Oh bless you mwahhhhh xxxxxx

How lovely for you Linda to have found something so old ,But that you can still use Hun, its76years old so could be worth a little something?

Sally the I pad is terrible at self predicting it drives me round the bend

Xxx