Knitting Now and Then

One of my favourite blogs is The Knitting Needle and the Damage Done , by Orange Swan.  She reviews knitting magazines, and often exactly na...

Last week's Huddersfield KCG branch meeting was a trunk show of picture sweaters.  I took a large suitcase full of picture knits from th...

This week, we were sorting more patterns leaflets in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection - this time a batch of Sirdar patterns from...

My sister has given me a cutting from the Daily Telegraph of 12th February about twin brothers Mike and Patrick Davies who are still wearin...

More than a year ago, I found a knitting pattern for a sweater designed to look like a bottle of De Kuyper Cherry Brandy and wrote about it ...

Copley 376  I found this pattern leaflet recently.  It's dated 1983, when picture sweaters were popular, and  I suppose you could th...

Last week, I sorted a box of patterns issued by Richard Poppleton & Sons, a spinning company which had mills at Horbury near Wakefield. ...

I have been sorting more patterns from the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection.  The latest batch are Patons patterns from the late 1970...

We were sorting some 1960s and 1970s Patons pattern leaflets at Lee Mills recently and found a pattern for Blue Peter sweaters from 1969 - i...

One of the things we were looking at for the display of picture sweaters at Yorkshire Wool Week was a child's sweater with Postman P...

Before we went to Istanbul , I looked out some picture sweater patterns at Lee Mills for the display at Armley Mills .   I think my favourit...

This week has been Yorkshire Wool Week   at Armley Mills Industrial Museum in Leeds, organised by the Baa Ram Ewe yarn shop.  I went to the ...

It was a beautiful day today with clear blue skies and sunshine, and it was warm .  I was working at Lee Mills sorting knitting patterns fo...