Knitting Now and Then

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

Friday, 30 December 2011

Happy Holidays

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Yesterday, a large box arrived through the post from the U.S.,  with our Christmas cards and gifts from our daughter and her girlfriend.  ...
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Monday, 26 December 2011

It's Christmas! Socks!

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Now that Christmas has arrived, I can reveal - tada!- that I have been knitting more socks, as Christmas presents.  (The pair of fluffy sock...
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Friday, 23 December 2011

A Computing Christmas Tree

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Yesterday I went to Leeds University to meet some friends I used to work with.  There was a Christmas tree in the School of Computing whic...
Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Jester Again

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Jester Pattern 1016 Jester Pattern 1022 Jester Pattern 1028 I was at Lee Mills yesterday with two of the o...
Friday, 16 December 2011

Jester Patterns

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Jester Pattern 1008 I have found two especially attractive knitting patterns while looking through some of those that we have sorted so ...
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Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Bookish Christmas Card

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Yesterday, one of the two book groups I belong to had its Christmas dinner, and I made Christmas cards for the other eight members sh...
Friday, 9 December 2011

Knit, Natter, Have a party

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There is a knit-and-natter session every Thursday at the Spun shop in Huddersfield, which opened just over a year ago.   Yesterday, the ...
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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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