Comments | advanced_knit: Anne Scott-James RIP

reapermum in advanced_knit

Anne Scott-James RIP

May 16, 2009 12:45

I loved this paragraph from her obituary this week, about her first job at Vogue magazine in 1934

She got the job none the less, on the strength of her claim (untrue) to be an experienced knitter. An early assignment was to unravel and remake a baby's knitted jumper sent in by an irate reader; the jumper had been made without a hole for the head ( Read more... )

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pers July 3 2009, 14:41:14 UTC

LOL Too funny. So, back then, they'd redo your work for you if there was an error? O_o

reapermum July 3 2009, 15:08:30 UTC

Not leaving a hole for the head is a pretty big error, but it's very tempting just to hand something over when it goes wrong.

pers July 3 2009, 15:31:13 UTC

Indeed. The kind of error you'd think a knitter might notice as she was working. lol