Knitting Now and Then

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 ...

When we were in London a week ago, for the Knitting History Forum, I spent a happy day at the British Library, looking at magazines from 191...

I have been reading a new book, Knitskrieg! A call to yarns by Joyce Meader - subtitled "A history of military knitting from the 1...

This is a belated report on last week's study day in Glasgow on 'Knitting in Wartime', part of the  Knitting in the Round proje...

We have a few old postcards in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection that show people knitting, including these two of Scottish herrin...

The Lady's World Fancy Work Book , January 1915. I wrote last year about the April 1914 issue of The Lady's World Fancy Work B...

Happy New Year to everyone!  I intended to write this post nearer to Christmas 2014, but missed.  But it's not Twelfth Night yet, so ...

Yesterday I went to Lincoln, to see the ' Centenary Stitches ' exhibition, of clothes that were knitted for the "Tell Them ...

I was in London on Saturday for the Knitting History Forum conference - I've been busy ever since, so this post about it is later than ...

I mentioned a while ago that I had spent a day in the British Library in London, reading bound volumes of Woman's Weekly from the First...

On Sunday, we went to a  History Wardrobe  event at the Red House Museum in Gomersal - a talk on  Women and the Great War , featuring or...

Apologies for the long gap since the last post - been busy. One of the things I have been doing is reading a new book on knitting in t...