Knitting Now and Then

Earlier this week I went to Leeds to see my dentist - I had broken a piece off a tooth.  (Flossing my teeth!!  Although he says that it w...

I went to the Knitting & Stitching Show in Harrogate on Thursday - a good day.  I have been once before, two years ago, and wrote about ...

Emu 2561 - designed by Mary Quant Last week at Lee Mills, I was searching for Emu pattern leaflets designed by Mary Quant.  She did two ...

Yesterday, I went to London to give a talk at the AGM of the Knitting History Forum , on Elizabeth Forster .  The meeting was at the London ...

Sirdar leaflet 1402 Did someone think that Roger Moore looked especially good in yellow, or was it just a fashionable colour for men in ...

I said last week that there are fewer treasures being found at Lee Mills now.  This leaflet isn't really a treasure, but it was an un...

For the last couple of weeks, Sainsbury's supermarket has been selling "carving pumpkins" for Hallowe'en  - not with th...