Knitting Now and Then

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

Monday, 31 May 2010

Badminton Progress

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I have nearly finished the (modified)  Badminton jumper from Marion Foale's Classic Knitwear , which I described in a previous post .  ...
Thursday, 20 May 2010

The Sixties before Miniskirts

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On the drive from Ashland to Portland up the I5, we stopped at a little town called Cottage Grove for lunch - we knew from a previous stop ...
Sunday, 16 May 2010

Holiday Yarn Shopping

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We're just back from our holiday in Oregon - fortunately, we had no delays to our flight back, even though the volcano is still erupting...
Sunday, 2 May 2010

Revisiting a Past Project

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Royal College Aran The photo is from a "Fashion Workshop" collection of ideas for things to make  published by a long-defu...
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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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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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