Knitting Now and Then

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

Friday, 29 July 2011

All Sewn Up

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I have finally finished the Martha cardigan that I started back in March.  I actually finished the knitting weeks ago, but it was hanging a...
Tuesday, 19 July 2011

That Day We Sang

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Last week for my birthday treat, we went to see the new musical by Victoria Wood that was running at Manchester Opera House as part of t...
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Thursday, 14 July 2011

Vintage Knitwear

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I had a birthday this week, and one of the things I got was Vintage Fashion Knitwear by Marnie Fogg.  The subtitle is "Collecting a...
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Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Weekend in Cardiff

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Modern Weekly, 1927 Last weekend  I was at the University of Cardiff for a Knitting and Crochet Guild meeting.  There was a day of works...
Wednesday, 6 July 2011

World War I Knitted Comforts

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Knitted Comforts for Men on Land and Sea Here is another pattern booklet from the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection at Lee M...
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Tuesday, 28 June 2011

A Scarf for Your Fridge

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I am still working at Lee Mills, to sort out the periodicals collection of the Knitting and Crochet Guild.  By now, most of the periodicals ...
Sunday, 26 June 2011

Away in Oregon

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Another long blogging silence, this time because we were on holiday in Oregon, visiting our daughter in Portland.  (Although we have now bee...
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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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