Miss Marples-knitting

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What an interesting thought - obviously Miss Marples was knitting and crocheting for her large, extended family........

Jane Hickson was my favorite Miss Marple, I have only seen a couple of the new series. The first thing that I check for is to see if the actress is truly knitting or just fumbling around with the needles and yarn, something you see quite often in US produced TV shows. A couple of things that you may find interesting, in All Creatures Great And Small the sweaters worn by the cast were hand knitted items purchased at jumble sales for the show. The Fair Isle vest worn by James and Tristan were beautifully done and vintage knitting. Alice Starmore was a costume designer for the BBC, she is the one who mentioned use of vintage knitting in BBC productions in some article she wrote on Fair Isle knitting.

DA

I thought that she was usually knitting baby gifts.

Higs, Kather> I have watched quite a few of these films whilst knitting or

Cher ? Do you think , she Actually knitted something ,,, even if she knew how to knit , i think it was a PROP and was handed to her on the proper moments when the script called for it mirjam

well she had plenty of nephews in the series never seen any neices.

Ummm '''jane''' Hickson??? I thought it was Joan, which is the one I liked most too.

wonderful actress shame she is no longer with us.

I've seen her knitting a very fine light green item adult sized sweater as it had a rib on it. the same sort of size again in red in another film. The last one I saw was with my friend George Baker in it, alot younger then of course, and she was knitting a navy and white striped sweater, George who played a detective in it, commented on it and she said it was for a nephew of hers, first time I've ever known her refer to any of her knitting.

Ah well lol higz......Cher

Sorry, her name was Joan , she was what I had always imagined Miss Marple as being. Perhaps the typo was an unconscious compliment to Joan's abilities? :)

DA

But some of them were married.

Higs, Kather> well she had plenty of nephews in the series never seen any neices. > >

LOL yes perhaps it was, it threw me for a minute had to go and look her up...cos I know lots have acted as Miss Marple

I may try and get some of her films off of ebay

higz....Cher

I tend to think that she only knitted the odd lines from projects already in the props lol looks good though

higz...Cher

LOL @ Katherine