Knitting Now and Then

Mostly about knitting history. Sometimes about what I'm knitting. Sometimes about other things too.

Showing posts with label shawl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shawl. Show all posts
Wednesday, 9 November 2016

A Lacy Shawl

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I finished knitting this shawl two months ago, in September, but couldn't write about it because it was a birthday present.  Maura ha...
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Wednesday, 11 March 2015

Herring Lassies

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We have a few old postcards in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection that show people knitting, including these two of Scottish herrin...
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Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Mysterious shawl

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I had some alpaca yarn left over from the Color Affection shawl I knitted two years ago, and so I have been on the lookout for another p...
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Barbara
I'm retired and live in West Yorkshire (in England). I returned to knitting at the end of 2009, after a long gap. I'm fascinated by old knitting patterns and women's magazines. Since 2011, I have been sorting and cataloguing the collection of publications held by the U.K. Knitting and Crochet Guild - magazines, pattern booklets, pattern leaflets and other publications. It is a wonderful resource for researching the history of knitting and crochet in the 20th century. With the centenary of the First World War in mind, I have been investigating the knitting and crochet activity at that time - the vast quantities of knitted comforts for the troops, but also what women made for their families and their homes.
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