Exercises in Knitting: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Exercises in Knitting, credited to Cornelia Mee, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Mrs. Mee, her husband, and her sister ran a yarn and needlework import/warehouse business in Bath, England. Her books primarily contain practical everyday items that knit up quickly with the busy homemaker in mind. At this time, published knitting "receipts" did not contain abbreviations and were laborious to use. They were, however, rich in error! Later in her career, due to circumstances of war and the resulting social stress and poverty, many of her knitting books were printed for ladies' charitable societies, which used her knitting "receipts" to clothe the poor mill workers who were out of work due to the American Civil War and the embargo of cotton. In addition to recording the original patterns, LibriVox knitters have also knitted samples of these patterns, displayed at the KnitWiki, and have attempted to condense and clarify the patterns for the enjoyment of modern day knitters. (Summary by Brenda Price)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Exercises in Knitting
• Author credits: Cornelia Mee
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 54
• Listed recording duration: 2:53:53

Catalogue topics

• knitting
• patterns
• Mee

Opening tracks: first 24 of 54

1. 01 - Chair Cover 1 - German Pattern of Open Double Knitting, both Sides alike — 2:06
2. 02 - Nun's Pattern — 1:42
3. 03 - Viennoise Pattern — 1:50
4. 04 - Chair Cover 4 - Beautiful Coral Pattern — 5:44
5. 05 - Beautiful Diamond Pattern — 2:34
6. 06 - Pretty Feather Pattern — 1:14
7. 07 - Chair Cover 7 - Rose-Leaf Pattern — 3:53
8. 08 - Chair Cover 8 - Pretty Spider-Net Pattern, with Open Work between — 5:23
9. 09 - Shield Pattern, surrounded with Open Work — 4:56
10. 10 - Chair Cover 10 - Canvass Pattern — 1:47
11. 11 - Chair Cover 11 - Leaf Pattern — 3:41
12. 12 - Chair Cover 12 - Another Leaf Pattern — 4:04
13. 13 - Narrow Vandyke Edging — 3:04
14. 14 - For a Baby's Hood very pretty — 3:22
15. 15 - Very Pretty Pattern for a Fish Serviette — 2:35
16. 16 - Two pretty Fringes for Chair Covers, c — 1:51
17. 17 - New Pattern for Lace Edging — 2:42
18. 18 - Sugar-Plum Stitch — 1:17
19. 19 - Leaf Pattern for Half-Square Shawl — 5:19
20. 20 - Baby's Shoe and Stocking — 3:31
21. 21 - Shell Pattern for a Baby's Cap — 5:28
22. 22 - For a Knitted Bodice — 2:34
23. 23 - Pretty Open Pattern — 1:48
24. 24 - Shell Knitting for a Bag — 2:55

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