Knitting Now and Then

Mostly about knitting history. Sometimes about what I'm knitting. Sometimes about other things too.

Showing posts with label Woman's Weekly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Woman's Weekly. Show all posts
Thursday, 31 October 2019

1919

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I'm still catching up on writing about Shetland Wool Week, and this post is about the talk I gave at the Shetland Museum as part of the ...
Sunday, 5 February 2017

Rosebud

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We have recently received a donation to the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection of a set of doll's clothes, and the doll they wer...
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Friday, 25 September 2015

The Face of the Fifties

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For me, the face of the 1950s is the face of Woman's Weekly in the 1950s.   My Grandma bought the magazine every week, and once I could...
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Barbara
I'm retired and live in West Yorkshire (in England). I returned to knitting at the end of 2009, after a long gap. I'm fascinated by old knitting patterns and women's magazines. Since 2011, I have been sorting and cataloguing the collection of publications held by the U.K. Knitting and Crochet Guild - magazines, pattern booklets, pattern leaflets and other publications. It is a wonderful resource for researching the history of knitting and crochet in the 20th century. With the centenary of the First World War in mind, I have been investigating the knitting and crochet activity at that time - the vast quantities of knitted comforts for the troops, but also what women made for their families and their homes.
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