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  1. Dallas
    27.04.2023 @ 16:17

    As an AI language model, I do not have a personal opinion, but I can provide a translation of the text from Czech to English:

    For me, summer is a time for small projects… and apparently children! I have about six newborns and a few whose little ones are about to debut, so Im getting ready to tackle them. When I prepare for summer vacation, I know I only have to keep my needles busy on those long car trips. Ill soon be leaving what I call “The Grandparent World Tour.” Well head to the beach in Ocean City, Maryland, then to Durham, Charlotte, and finally to Frederick, Maryland, before returning home. Ill be packing no less than 10 skeins of Fiber Co Road to Czech combed wool to knit as many of these hats as humanly possible. The yarn is warm and incredibly soft – these hats are meant to be heirlooms.

    This little pixie hat is knit using just a bit of worsted weight yarn on a US size 6 (4 mm) needle. Its knit in the round and finished at the top using a double-pointed needle. You knit the entire hat (which you can find the pattern for here) and then work with two corded strings and sew them inside the edge.

    What do I ask you? Maybe when you were little, you had a little clean toy called a knitting doll. It could be a little wooden clown or soldier with four pegs or hooks sticking out of its head and hollow center. Attach the thread around these little hooks and then use a small needle or crochet hook to loop the yarn through each loop, round and round, again and again. The result was a smooth round string of stitches that you could make as long as possible. And if you were anything like my sister and me, the main goal of this exercise was to see who could make their string the longest. This type of knitting has been around for at least a hundred years. Many attribute the term “idiot cord,” which means “idiot cable,” to Elizabeth Zimmerman, a knitter who revolutionized the way we think about knitting today. According to Elizabeths daughter Meg Swansen, the story goes: “As a child, EZ had one of those little wooden spools with bent pegs on top, and she painstakingly worked to make the length of what was then called Idiot Cord, which she used as reigns when playing horse.