Knitting Now and Then

[This was written, apart from minor tweaks, before I broke my wrists. As John said in the last post, I shan't be doing any  knitting for...

From The Knitter's Friend , 1847 My copy of The Knitter's Friend , edited by Mrs Hope, has an ad for a knitting needle gaug...

I wrote in December 2014 about a little Victorian knitting book that John had given me, The Knitter’s Friend .  The title page says that it ...