Knitting Now and Then

My sister has given me a cutting from the Daily Telegraph of 12th February about twin brothers Mike and Patrick Davies who are still wearin...

We often think that very thick knitting wool did not exist until recently, but  I showed 1930s knitting patterns for chunky yarn here , and ...

I was in John Lewis Sheffield a couple of weeks ago, looking for a new pair of jeans, when I noticed a jumper with what looked like an i...

More than a year ago, I found a knitting pattern for a sweater designed to look like a bottle of De Kuyper Cherry Brandy and wrote about it ...

I have been sorting out magazines this week - I keep thinking that the magazines in the Guild collection are pretty much sorted, and then I ...

I have been busy for a couple of days, scanning knitting patterns from the First World War, or just before.  They will be passed to a large ...

My Wetwang sweater I finished knitting a sweater before Christmas, I've worn it several times, and I haven't yet written about ...