my gosh, my back aches just looking at the pic!
I know. Somewhere around here I have a book that talks about the knitting business in the Shetlands. A lot of it was done by poorer women who contract knitted. Often, the dealer supplied the yarn, which meant they were always suspicious that the knitter was shorting the pattern to keep a bit of yarn for their own business...women would do what they could, sometimes, to get their own yarn, cause they made a bit more if they supplied the yarn....