Back in the day when I used knit my own purse n fox nets. I started out to knit a long net , I only got to about 15 yards and got fed up , so made it into a stop net for ferreting . I was a young lad bang on lamping and chasing skirt when not. So got fed up knitting it, how I wished I would of stuck it out and finished it. I can't remember what year they came out , but I first see the basket method on vhs by Glen Waters . So my old mate made one up , gotta to be honest I was never that keen on the basket system.