Knitting Now and Then

I got back on Saturday from the In the Loop at 10 conference at Winchester School of Art, home of the Knitting Reference Library .   "...

I was in London last weekend, for the Knitting History Forum conference on Saturday at the London College of Fashion.  Professor Sandy Blac...

I was going to write a PS to my last post, but then I thought. "Who reads a PS?"  Probably no-one who's already read the origi...

As you know, I am always looking out for references to knitting in unlikely places.   Our holiday in Wales last week wasn't very fruitfu...

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

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 can't recall ever seeing a mention of knitting in a church before - certainly not carved in stone.  But there is one in Abbey Dore chu...

Wensley Dale Knitters John gave me a belated Christmas present which he bought at the Antiquarian Book Fair in York earlier this month....

This week, one of my book groups met for our annual Christmas dinner, and for the third year I made Christmas cards for the other members sh...

In the Knitting & Crochet Guild's collections at Lee Mills, there is a variety of tools and gadgets, as well as the knitted and croc...

Because I'm dealing with the publications collection at Lee Mills, I don't usually see much of the collection of knitted and crochet...

Yesterday, I went to London to give a talk at the AGM of the Knitting History Forum , on Elizabeth Forster .  The meeting was at the London ...

Two weeks ago, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a fascinating programme on SOS messages , presented by Eddie Mair.  When I was a child, SOS messages we...

In a recent session of sorting pattern leaflets at Lee Mills, we found a small batch of Templeton's  leaflets which seem to have been t...

While we were in Galloway we went to Sanquhar, which is a small village north of Dumfries.  The Tolbooth museum is a...

I wrote in a previous post about a booklet of patterns designed by Marjory Tillotson during World War I.  At that time she was employed ...