Knitting Now and Then

This post is all about knitting needles, so if they don't interest you, you might like to stop reading now . Katie at  Crafty Praxis ,...

I've found this pair of knitting needles - not in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection, though that's where they are going.  ...

In 2014,  I wrote a blog post about a mysterious pair of knitting needles in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection. The followin...

As part of the Big Clear Up at Lee Mills last week, we did a lot of work sorting out knitting needles. They were left over from Hook and Ne...

Before other plastics were developed and came into common use, one of the materials used for knitting needles was vulcanite, a hardened rubb...

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...

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...

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

This evening we had the monthly meeting of the Huddersfield branch of the Knitting & Crochet Guild, and we showed some of the tools and ...

I have been sorting out a corner of the office at Lee Mills recently.  It was full of all sorts of papers - books, magazines, leaflets - all...

Friends came to visit for a few days last week and brought me a wonderful knitting gift - an antique knitting needle case, containing stee...

On Saturday afternoon, J and I went to Tommy Topsoil at Sowerby so that I could get some cocoa shell mulch  (very good for the garden, and s...