Knitting Now and Then

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

Friday, 25 October 2013

Knitting in World War 2

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Last week Angharad and I went to Harrogate to talk to the Wednesday evening knit-and-natter group at  Baa Ram Ewe in Harrogate, as part o...
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Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Poodle Bottle Covers

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Poodle bottle covers featured in the recent TV programme on BBC4, " Knitting's Golden Age ".  They were said to represent some...
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Sunday, 20 October 2013

As Seen on TV

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It's a bit late to write about this (in fact, very late), but I am going to anyway.  Last month, BBC4 broadcast Knitting's Golden Ag...
Wednesday, 16 October 2013

The World is your Sweater

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Copley 376  I found this pattern leaflet recently.  It's dated 1983, when picture sweaters were popular, and  I suppose you could th...
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Tuesday, 15 October 2013

The Stitchery Annual

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I said in an earlier post that we had a visit 2 weeks ago from a party of Americans on a Vogue Knitting tour of England and Wales.  My...
Monday, 7 October 2013

Lucetting Workshop

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On Saturday I went to the October meeting of the Sheffield KCG group - the topic was lucetting.  I had barely heard of it, though it is a ve...
Friday, 4 October 2013

Cricket Sweaters

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In my last post I wrote about the Vogue Knitting tour coming to Scholes to see items from the  Knitting & Crochet Guild's collectio...
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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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