Knitting Now and Then

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

Monday, 30 July 2012

Sorted!

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Volunteers at Lee Mills have been sorting the Knitting and Crochet Guild's collection of pattern leaflets for months now, first by spi...
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Saturday, 28 July 2012

Barton-on-Humber

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It's been a busy week and I'm behindhand with posting.  Apologies. Last Saturday we went with some friends on an expedition to ...
Thursday, 19 July 2012

A Wedding Dress and Buttons

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Lydia and Ash are now back from their honeymoon, so Lydia's knitted wedding dress, which I wrote about last month here ,  is now on ...
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Sunday, 15 July 2012

Gondola Baskets

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I have done more sorting of Templeton's patterns   at Lee Mills, from the 1950s and 1960s.  One thing that you notice, when you're ...
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Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Knitting & Crochet Guild AGM

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On Saturday, three of us who work at Lee Mills went to the Annual General Meeting of the Knitting and Crochet Guild in Birmingham. There wa...
Thursday, 28 June 2012

Thirteen to the Dozen

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In a recent session of sorting pattern leaflets at Lee Mills, we found a small batch of Templeton's  leaflets which seem to have been t...
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Monday, 25 June 2012

What to Knit for a Wedding

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A week ago, Lydia, who owns the yarn shop in the Byram Arcade in Huddersfield, was married to Ash, and we went to the wedding party in 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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