What Knitted Items Are Curated in Museums? // Casual Friday 4-04

In this week's Casual Friday podcast, I have Tidbits; a Finished Object; discussion about how to repurpose UFOs (if that's your thing) during Finish it February; and a summary of the Curators Colloquium from the University of Glasgow, which discussed the collections and conservation of knitted items used by ordinary people in several Scottish museums. Support me by buying me a coffee on Ko-fi! https://www.ko-fi.com/roxannerichardson My knitting designs: https://www.ravelry.com/designers/roxanne-richardson My Ravelry project page for the sweater I'm wearing (contains links to the yarn and pattern, if there is one): https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Rox/a-serviceable-sweater SHOW NOTES 0:00 Introduction 0:51 Tidbit #1 Grandmother's Sewing Kit 2:09 Tidbit #2 The Myth of the Button Position 3:35 Tidbit #3 Physicist Unravels Knitting 4:48 Tidbit #4 Laceworkers of Nottingham 7:17 Tidbit #5 Is there a pattern for that? 9:56 Finished Object – Baby Blanket 11:13 Finish it February – What to do with UFOs? 22:25 Curators Colloquium Tidbit #1 Woman with her paternal grandmother's sewing kit https://twitter.com/MGYarn/status/1354098210671886342 Tidbit #2 Twitter thread on Button Position Myth https://twitter.com/mimicofmodes/status/1354170665230880769 Tidbit #3 Article on physicist Elisabetta Matsumoto's knitting research https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-one-physicist-unraveling-mathematics-knitting Tidbit #4 laceworkers Ravelry thread on Nottingham homeworkers https://www.r