Knitting Nancy gets a Makeover

 (before and after)

Knitting Peter

I had been wanting to give the Spear's Knitting Nancy of

the 1970's, 80's, and 90's a makeover for quite some

time.
(Knitting Nancy is the product name given
to the spool knitters by Spear's Games)

 I have a large number of these common boring 

and hideous bright pink-faced Knitting

Nancies in varying degrees of condition, the one

that I have painted here had had an accident with

nail polish of all things! ... and it had been purchased

for next to nothing.

In the 1920's - 30's, there were both female and

male form Knitting Nancies made by Spear's

of Germany and UK .... the male was called

Knitting Peter (Strick-Peter).

I quite like how he turned out in light

blue top with dark blue pants.

I also like his little expression on

his face!

 Here is the original Spear's
Knitting Peter (right)
of the late 20's/30's.
Don't the two Peter's
make a nice family
photo!!

                                                                        

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Spoolknitting Box

The prize for the winner of the current Yahoo

Spoolknitter Group Competition is this sweet 

hand-painted wooden box to hold your

spoolknitting accessories in.

It has a wood cut-out of Knitting Nancy

on the front!

The poll is now on to find our winner!

Link to the Yahoo Spoolknitter Group can be found

in the right-hand column of this blog.

Maybe we will see you there!

(Sept 13 ... now closed, but
we will be having more competitions!)

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