June 2010 Knitting Quiz

The winner of the Knitting Quiz is Carol Chase, of Ludlow who wins a £40 online voucher to spend on our website.

Congratulations to Carol and many thanks to everyone who entered the quiz, I hope you all enjoyed the research!

Rules:

1. The competition is open to anyone not connected with Serenity Knitting of any age .
2. All entries must be submitted by email by 11.59pm August 31, 2010. Any entries received after this date will not be considered.
3. Entrants agree to allow publicity of the winning entry and agree to the showcasing of the winner on this website.
4. The prize will be a £40 online voucher to spend in the Serenity Knitting webiste shop. No cash equivalents will be given.
5. All fully correctly answered entries will be combined and the first entry drawn will be the winner of the prize.
5. The judges decision on the winning entry is final.

The answers are marked in red

Questions:

1. Who was the Knitting Bishop of Leicester?
a) Richard Rutt
b) Montse Stanley
c) General Sir Charles Gardner

2. What is distinctive about Sanquhar knitting?
a) It is knitted only in Yorkshire
b) Only scarves are knitted
c) It is mostly knitted in black and white

3. Which stitch is described as " pass left to right without being worked"?
a) Moss stitch
b) Slip stitch
c) Cast on

4. What is blocking to a knitter?
a) Steaming garment to set the shape of knitting
b) Working patches of different colours
c) Knitting only rectangular shapes

5. Which is the best description of " intarsa"?
a) Knitting only in one colour yarn
b) Making bobbles in the knitted work
c) Working independent blocks of colour

6. What is the name of the famous knitwear designer known for being a gifted colourist and started life as a painter of stil life and portraits?
a) Nicky Epstein
b) Patricia Roberts
c) Kaffe Fasset

7. Which issue of Rowan Magazine featured a very young Kate Moss on one of her first modelling assignments?
a) No. 5
b) No. 17
c) No. 10

8. Who knitted the famous trompe -l'oeil jumper of 1927, with faux floppy bow?
a) Gabrielle Chanel
b) Elsa Schiaparelli
c) Marjory Tillotson

9. What does the word Sirdar mean?
(not multiple choice)
Meaning leader - this was the title/rank given to the British commander in chief of the Egyptian army in the 19th century

10. What in the Tudor and Stuarts time was known as a knitting cup?
(not multiple choice)

A bit of a tricky question here - a misleading darwing in a book led to the mistaken idea that there was a knitting cup at mediaeval marriage feasts. It is in fact, a phrase taken from Ben Jonson's play The Magnetic Lady " mind the parson's pint, to engage him in the business, a knitting cup there must be". Hence the phrase means merely that a marriage is taking place.