The Gift of Smartness

These are the items I would like for Christmas, from the Montgomery Ward & Co. catalog of 1931. Those mesh bags go for about $350 now. Since these Smart Gifts are so expensive, I'll settle for the gift of smartness instead. This next year is the year I want to be smart enough to set in a sweater sleeve. I can do it no problem with fabric, so I don't know why my brain seizes when I try to do it with knitting. Although, I did just get a really cool book, Custom Knits, by Wendy Bernard, which tells one how to achieve the set-in look from the top down, with picked up stitches and short rows. I'll try that way first and if it works, well then, problem solved. I feel smarter already.