01/14/01 Fireside Knitting


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	Monday December 31, 2001


	Fireside Knitting Warms The Heart And Hands


	*Learn the basics of knitting* , while experiencing the atmosphere of an 18th century farmhouse heated only by an open-hearth fire. Learn why the colonists had to keep busy and how they accomplished their tasks with so little light. On January 28,2001 you can experience this first hand at Morristown National Historic Parks Wick House.


					Photos by

					Joe Gigli



					Morristown - (above) Faye Kendall, Interpreter with The Morristown National Historical Park knits by the fire at the Wick House. (left) The hands of Pam Dobben , Interpreter with the Morristown National Historic Park demonstrating a purling stich .


		Knitting Passes Time
		At
	The Wick House


	Morristown - (above) Pam Dobben gives a demonstration on how to knit, by the heat of the fire in the Wick House an 18th century farmhouse in Morristown National Historical Park. (right) The hands of Pam demonstrating the purl stitch. (below) Visitors watch Pam Dobben demonstrate how to knit, in the authentic setting of the Wick House .


					Photos by

					Joe Gigli





					Morristown - (above) A skein of yarn sits on a wooden bench in the Wick House .(below) Faye Kendall stokes the fire to create a little warmth .



	Morristown -(above) Tools of the trade are a skein of yarn, and century old knitting needles , that created natural dyed mittens from raw wool, and an alternating stitch two color scarf. (below) The Wick House in the Morristown National Historical Park


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