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100 1 _aGray, Adelaide J.
245 1 4 _aThe Sunlight book of knitting and crocheting
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-24
508 _aRichard Tonsing, Aaron Adrignola, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"The Sunlight book of knitting and crocheting" by Adelaide J. Gray is a craft manual written in the early 20th century. It teaches knitting and crochet through clear, step-by-step instructions, illustrated stitch guides, and a wide range of practical patterns, while also promoting Sunlight-branded yarns and tools. Aimed at both beginners and experienced makers, it focuses on garments and accessories for the whole family, with special attention to infant wear, sweaters, afghans, and borders. The opening of the manual combines a welcoming preface for novices and experts with a detailed catalog of Sunlight yarns (from Golf Yarn and Germantown to Shetland Floss and Angora) and their recommended uses. It presents actual-size images of needles and hooks, explains house style (no abbreviations, use of asterisks for repeats), and then teaches foundational crochet and knitting stitches. This foundation expands into compact, named stitch patterns for texture and structure—covering general “detail stitches,” sweater textures, afghan techniques (including Tunisian-style variants), borders and edgings, and open-work effects. The section then shifts into fully specified projects, beginning with infant items: crocheted bonnets and hoods, a Marguerite hood, a crocheted jacket and dress, a baby jacket, a knitted helmet, several styles of bootees, thumbless mittens, a child’s coordinated outfit, and an infant’s band with straps. Each project lists materials, hooks/needles, ribbons, and succinct row-by-row directions designed to be followed without prior pattern-reading experience. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cChicago: W. G. Perry, 1915
653 _aCrocheting
653 _aKnitting
653 _aKnitting -- Patterns
653 _aCrocheting -- Patterns
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/sunlightbookofkn00gray
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77319
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