Knitting Now and Then

Back in February, I went to an exhibition, An English Lady's Wardrobe , at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.  It showed the cloth...

A friend has been collecting knitting needle gauges recently.  She found that she had two examples of Chambers' Bell Gauge, so has gener...

Over 150 numbers of the  Fancy Needlework Illustrated  magazine were published before the Second World War.  The Knitting & Crochet...

Last weekend, and the one before, I went to Harrogate with another of the volunteers who work on the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection...

One of the things that Joyce Meader showed at the Knitting in Wartime study day was a "Crimean Sleeping Helmet".  The pattern was...

We went to an antiques & collectables fair at Doncaster Race Course yesterday, and I bought a few knitting-related things, including a p...

George Graves as Widow Twankey It's the pantomime season (Oh yes, it is!) and so here is a postcard showing a pantomime character...

I  have been looking through some magazines that date from about 1907 to the early 1920s, covering mostly crochet, with some knitting.  It i...