Knitting Now and Then

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

Friday, 29 May 2015

Knitting Seaweed

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Last week, it was the monthly meeting of the Huddersfield branch of the Knitting & Crochet Guild, and we had a workshop run by a local m...
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Thursday, 28 May 2015

Holiday in Northern Greece

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We got back from a holiday in Greece ten days ago - it's taken me this long to get around to writing this blog.  As with last year's...
Tuesday, 5 May 2015

My Knitting

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I haven't mentioned what I've been knitting for a while, although I have several projects almost finished.  I don't generally li...
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Monday, 4 May 2015

Lace Knits

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My friend Ann Kingstone has just published a new book, Lace Knits .   It should be appearing  in the shops in the next few days, if it isn...
Saturday, 2 May 2015

For a Royal Baby

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This week, we were sorting several boxes of Peter Pan patterns in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection, and found several copies o...
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Thursday, 23 April 2015

1960s Fashion Models

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I have been sorting a lot of Hayfield pattern leaflets in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection recently.  (Hayfield was the brand nam...
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Thursday, 16 April 2015

Read, Knit and Work Plain Work

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As you know, I am always looking out for references to knitting in unlikely places.   Our holiday in Wales last week wasn't very fruitfu...
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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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