Knitting Now and Then

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

Wednesday, 30 July 2014

WIPaholics Anonymous

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Still catching up with the week before last.... On the 17th, after we got back from Blackpool, I went to the Huddersfield branch meeting o...
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Monday, 28 July 2014

It looks different!

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I've got bored with the way this blog looks - or looked until 5 minutes ago.  I started the blog in January 2010, and it's looked th...
Sunday, 27 July 2014

The Trunk Show in Blackpool

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I had no internet access for most of last week - it's very disconcerting when that happens unexpectedly.  So I'm very behindhand wit...
Tuesday, 15 July 2014

Shetland Lace Workshop

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Tari in progress On Saturday afternoon, at the Knitting & Crochet Guild convention in Derby, I did a Shetland lace workshop led by ...
Monday, 14 July 2014

Visible Mending

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It was the Knitting & Crochet Guild's annual convention in Derby this past weekend (about which I shall have lots to say, if I ever ...
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Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Les Maillots Jaunes

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Two of our weekend visitors who went to Leeds on Saturday for the Tour de France Grand Depart brought back photos of knitting and crochet th...
Monday, 7 July 2014

The Tour de France in Huddersfield

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Yesterday we carried our garden chairs to the nearest point of the Tour de France route and sat on the pavement (which would normally be a v...
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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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