Knitting Now and Then

Last weekend, I was knitting at Sheringham, on the north Norfolk coast - the Leighton Buzzard branch of the Knitting & Crochet Guild hol...

A bag of mixed knitting patterns arrived at the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection this week, including a copy of a magazine called Kni...

This year is the 40th anniversary of the Knitting & Crochet Guild, and Guild members are being encouraged to make something to recall 19...

Today I was sorting some magazines in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection and separating out surplus copies.  One of them was a W...

I mentioned that in the collection of pattern leaflets and other publications that we were given a couple of weeks ago there were a lot of A...

On Friday I took delivery of 4 boxes of knitting publications - the collection of a woman who has recently died.  They were donated to the K...

I was in Leighton Buzzard (Bedfordshire) yesterday for the ' pop-up museum ' on woolcrafts held in the town's library.   There w...

I am, you may have noticed, interested in old knitting patterns.  A sub-category of vintage patterns that I find particularly fascinating ar...

I was at the hairdressers last week and (as you do) read the latest Vogue , the August issue.  It showed a crochet jacket designed by Rosett...

I was very busy last week - hence lack of blog posts.    On Thursday evening (the 3rd Thursday of the month) it was the monthly meeting of t...

The first designs by Elizabeth Forster that I saw were illustrated in her book, The Wandering Tattler .  The designs had been published as...

Poodle bottle covers featured in the recent TV programme on BBC4, " Knitting's Golden Age ".  They were said to represent some...