Knitting Now and Then

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 ...

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

Anyone who was at the Knitting & Crochet Guild Convention in Birmingham earlier this month might have seen a pair of 19th century knitt...

Last weekend a group of us from the Knitting & Crochet Guild in Huddersfield had our second knitting weekend in Blackpool.  As last year...

As I said in a recent post about the Print o' the Wave lace pattern, I've been researching its history, and along the way I've ...

Swatch of Print o' the Wave, from The Lady's Assistant by Mrs Gaugain I'm doing a workshop on the Shetland lace pattern, P...

I have just bought a copy of Kate Davies' The Book of Haps , a luscious book.  It has essays on the history of Shetland haps, and ne...

I planned to paint a wall of the bathroom yesterday.  But then on my way home from buying a new paint brush and a paint kettle, I remembere...

I don't know how other bloggers manage to write about things on the day they happen.  I can't write posts fast enough, and they  alw...