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    Nov 30, 2021 4 minutes

    Jennifer May, Production Assistant

    Find this pattern in issue 200

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    MY NURSING DAYS

    I knitted this tea cosy for my daughter, and I added the glasses so it looks like me when I was nursing. I trained as a nurse in the late 1960s/early 1970s and our uniforms took a bit of getting used to. As you went through the ranks, your dress and belt changed colour and when you qualified, you were allowed to wear a special buckle and cuffs. Caps were starched cotton kept in place with white Kirby grips. You could hide a really bad hair day under your cap! I knitted the doctor tea cosy as a

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