Reminiscing

Here is my old school. The photo was taken in 1971 but it is still there and looks exactly the same.
I found the photo when I browsed a new website called Danske Billeder where you can find a lot of old photos. After I joined the global knitting world, Ravelry, I have been in contact with several knitters, who have ancestors from - or have been in Denmark, and I believe they can find some very interesting information on this website.

The room for needlework was at the top floor. And I was so excited when I found this photo from the local newspaper in 1965. It is a picture of the annual exhibition of needlework and my sisters and I definitely have stuff displayed here. Perhaps one of the nighties hanging on the blackboard.

I remember the first time I "exhibited". It was at my fourth year at school and we should all work mittens. Grey wool. The first mitten took a veeery long time, and I found out that if I knit very loosely, I could finish the second one in a more reasonable time. I guess, I suffered from second mitten syndrome already then. The result was, that the second mitten was huge, and could fit a bear´s paw. My teacher was not pleased at all, and when I realized that an exhibition was coming up, I was really scared. However, I did not have to worry. A compassionate teacher had put my disabled mitten underneath the first one in a way that they appeared to be the same size. I have been a teacher myself and we can be nice.

The dolls' clothes in front were made from the most popular fabric for fifty years, I think, a soft check blue and white cotton and every school must have bought a kilometre of it every year.

I still like the fabric very much, but I do not know if you can still buy it. It was used for children´s clothes as well. Here is a photo from my Gyldendals Sy og Strikkebog from 1940. I can still feel my neck tickle when I see the photo of the little girl fitting the unfinished dress.

I found this little doll´s dress at a flea market. It hangs on my wall next to this photo of me, aged three.