05/18/2026
It’s Victoria Day OR May Long Weekend Monday, & our shop will be open our regular 12-4pm hours. Do drop on by & say hello to Diana & Jenna ♥️
TFN folks like history (among other passions) & here’s a tidbit from a Queen Victoria angle…”Queen Victoria was a lifelong avid knitter and crocheter, and she also spun. Though she probably only did handiwork because she enjoyed it, her taste for it had far-reaching effects. Prior to the early nineteenth century, knitting was a folk art and a cottage industry, something the poor did from necessity and to earn a living…In the nineteenth century, knitting became something all socioeconomic classes did, partly because of the rise of the popular press and the subsequent availability of printed knitting patterns, partly because of technical advances in the production of knitting needles and the introduction of standardized size needles, but also and in no small part because Queen Victoria elevated the status of knitting by setting a royal example. By the end of Queen Victoria’s life every ‘properly’ brought-up young girl in Western society was taught to knit as a matter of course, regardless of her family’s economic status. Queen Victoria probably had a very salutary effect on crocheting as well, as crocheting did not even exist long before 1800, but became a common craft in less than a century…as much as she liked to knit, QV was not all that skilled in the art. There’s a story told that on one occasion, Victoria was visiting a Scottish household near Balmoral Castle and presented her hostess with a pair of socks that she had knitted herself. There was an elderly woman also present who was hard of hearing and hadn’t grasped the visitor’s identity, and who loudly remarked, “If her man gets no better made socks than that, I pity him.” Fortunately, Her Majesty was amused.” Source: http://theknittingneedleandthedamagedone.blogspot.com/2013/04/queen-victorias-royal-example.html
However you spend your day, enjoy it 😊☀️🌸🌼🌷🌻
