Knitting Now and Then

I wrote a few months ago ( here ) about a group of tools and gadgets that had recently been given to the Knitting & Crochet Guild collec...

In the previous post I showed two ads for knitting needles, from 1921.  Both ads mentioned bone knitting needles, implying of course that th...

I wrote a post two years ago about Double Century knitting needles , which had a metal core inside a plastic coating.  The original idea was...

Through the local newspaper, the Huddersfield Examiner,  I have been trying to find out more about Wakefield Greenwood , a Huddersfield bus...

Writing last week about the design for a ' novel wool winder ' in Hobbies Weekly reminded me of some war-time correspondence I had ...

John saw this copy of Hobbies Weekly at a book fair, and bought it for me, because of the illustration of a wool winder on the front cover. ...

I do like a knitting needle with a patent number.  (At least I do if I can find the patent - sometimes I can't, and then it's just f...

A friend has been sorting out her mother's things, and found a stocking mending kit and other sewing bits and pieces that she has offere...

Today I was sorting some magazines in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection and separating out surplus copies.  One of them was a W...

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...

Yesterday, Angharad and I took the trunk show to Haworth (home of the Brontes).  The Skipnorth group get together every year for a knitting ...

I have recently bought some vintage knitting needles, and I think they are the nicest straight knitting needles I have ever used.    The bra...

Last June we had a Hook and Needle Week at Lee Mills, to make a start on sorting out the tools and gadgets in the Knitting & Crochet Gu...

I hadn't seen, or even heard of, a rug wool gauge until friends gave me one a couple of weeks ago,  and now I've seen another - or r...

Friends came to stay last weekend and brought me a knitting-related gift - a Patons Turkey Rug Wool Gauge.   It's a piece of wood, 8 ½  ...