Knitting Now and Then

 Leach's Sixpenny Knitting Series was published from 1920 to 1935, according to the British Library catalogue - I wrote about one of ...

Last week I was in Shetland, staying in Lerwick, for the 10th Shetland Wool Week. I had never been to Shetland before (or in fact anywhere ...

I'm going to Shetland Wool Week at the end of September - the first time I've been to Wool Week, and the first time I've been to...

I'm not suggesting that I am about to make Fair Isle knitting easy - the post title comes from a Weldon's Sixpenny Series booklet t...

I have written a few posts about Fancy Needlework Illustrated,  and an article in Piecework magazine that I wrote about here .  It's o...

My copy of Susan Crawford 's mammoth new book, The Vintage Shetland Project , arrived last month.  It was a lovely surprise - I ordered ...