19th Century Knitting Surprises // Casual Friday 3-31

In this week's Casual Friday podcast, it's a deep dive into the 19th century, with tidbits, sweater history updates, project updates, and some surprising revelations about clothing sizes of the late 19th century/early 20th century. 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 LINKS TO THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST 1890s women's hockey team http://hockeygods.com/images/7581-Womens_Ice_Hockey_Team_1890s 19th century knitting book/pattern resources online http://bookworm1860.blogspot.com/2012/02/19th-century-knitting-sources-online.html early North American needle gauges https://tinyurl.com/y68qx6t5 article on mid-19th century yarns: http://www.raggedsoldier.com/knitting_wife.pdf Gail Lambert's masters thesis The Taxonomy of Sweater Structures and Their Origins. https://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/bitstream/handle/1840.16/174/THESIS.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Project page for my socks: https://ravel.me/Rox/sssfs The Art of Knitting (1892) https://archive.org/details/artofknitting00butt Fancy and Practical Knitting (1897) https://archive.org/details/krl00402905/page/n175/mode/2up CoCoVid livestream on 19th century sizing myths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22veOzwNJLs Custom cutter's guide young men https://tinyurl.com/yya5brqx custom cutter's guide women https://archive.org/details/cutterspractical00vinc/page/4/mode/2up Introduction: 0:00 Tidbits: 0:34