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RAKE KNITTING PATTERNS
[Illustration: Twins wearing rake knitted sweaters made by a patient at
Kenilworth Hospital, Biltmore, N. C.]
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Rake Knitting Patterns
Bertha Thompson
Organizer and Director of Occupational Therapy and Principal
of the Summer School of Occupational Therapy,
Woodstock, N. Y.
[Illustration: BRUCE—MILWAUKEE]
THE BRUCE PUBLISHING COMPANY
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
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Copyright 1923
The Bruce Publishing Company
Printed in the United States of America
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_Dedicated to the happiness
of the sick and convalescent._
PREFACE.
Who does not remember the spool-knitter of his childhood, perhaps
a home made affair—a large empty spool with four wire brads driven
in around the opening at one end—on which one made an endless rope
of colored yarns, to use, maybe, for reins when playing horse. Our
ex-service patients in the army and public health service hospitals
have seized upon the principle of this toy, and have applied it in
making “rakes” of various sizes on which they have “knitted” a large
number of articles, from silk neckties to wool shawls, caps, sweaters
and capes. They have found real interest and pleasure in this pastime.
The patient flat on his back in a plaster cast, sometimes with the use
of only one hand, has been able to make garments as attractive and
well-made as the man who is up and about.
The results of their experiments in “rake knitting” have been so very
worth while, that I have wanted to make them available for the use of
the sick and convalescent everywhere. Therefore I have prepared this
pamphlet of patterns. It does not pretend to exhaust the possibilities
of “rake knitting,” but merely offers a few patterns which have been
used successfully in knitting with two and four-fold yarn.
Special thanks are due the patients of Kenilworth Hospital, U. S. P. H. S.,
Biltmore, N. C., who worked out some of these patterns and allowed me
to photograph some of their finished work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Chapter 1—Tools and Materials 9-12