Knitting Now and Then

Last year, I posted a rhyme, Anna's Adventure , published by Patons & Baldwins about 1946, to advise knitters on how to wash wool.  ...

While I was in Shetland for Wool Week, I went on a tour of Jamieson's Mill at Sandness. It's about 30 miles from Lerwick, on the wes...

In February, I wrote about finding several balls of Patons Lucelle in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection, and showed several patte...

Whatever happened to January?  It doesn't feel like we've had 31 days since the New Year, and yet here we are, past the end of Janua...

I was browsing some online newspapers today, looking for something else, when I found an account from May 1919 of someone opening a wool sh...

In November, a group of knitters from the Huddersfield Knitting & Crochet Guild branch decided to share two Opal advent calendars -...

We often have a week in June when we concentrate on sorting out some aspect of the collection.  In 2014, we had Hook and Needle Week , when ...

Yesterday evening, we had the monthly meeting of the Huddersfield Knitting & Crochet Guild, and I managed to get to it (with some he...

Back in February, I went to a fund-raising sale for Ribbon Circus in Hebden Bridge, one of the many businesses and houses in the Calde...