Knitting Now and Then

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

Monday, 26 April 2010

Starting out

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Today's Knitting and Crochet Blog Week topic is "Starting out": How and when did you begin knitting/crocheting? OK.......
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Knitting and Crochet Blog Week

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After several days of nothing happening, we got our flight to the US rearranged for yesterday. So we're now in Oregon staying with our d...
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Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Knitting stick

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We are supposed to be on a flight to the US, from Manchester via Amsterdam, at this very moment, but because of the  Eyjafjallajökull erupti...
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Saturday, 10 April 2010

Updating a Classic

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I have had a copy of Marion Foale's Classic Knitwear for years (though I think that strictly speaking it is my sister's and I have...
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Sunday, 4 April 2010

And Another Scarf

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The scarf in Regia sock yarn that I wrote about previously is now finished.  It is about 140 cm. by 25 cm. (The fabric is rather stretchy, s...
Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Palindromic scarf

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Our friend Mary has  an important birthday today.  She lives in the Highlands of Scotland, several miles from the nearest town (or settlemen...
Tuesday, 23 March 2010

Booktown

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Last weekend,  John and I went to Glasgow for a wedding.  We stopped on the way at Sedbergh, a little town on the western edge of the Yorksh...
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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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