Knitting Now and Then

We have just been given a knitted coat for the Knitting & Crochet collection - the Shaded Diamonds design by Kaffe Fassett.   The pa...

I haven't written for a while - I just haven't been in the mood.  Sorry about that. But I've been knitting, of course.  What I...

From The Knitter's Friend , 1847 My copy of The Knitter's Friend , edited by Mrs Hope, has an ad for a knitting needle gaug...

Yesterday, Angharad and I took the trunk show to Haworth (home of the Brontes).  The Skipnorth group get together every year for a knitting ...

I finished sewing in the ends of yarn on my On the Other Hand mitts a couple of days ago, and pressed them.  I wore them today at Lee Mills...

I planned to paint a wall of the bathroom yesterday.  But then on my way home from buying a new paint brush and a paint kettle, I remembere...

I wrote in December 2014 about a little Victorian knitting book that John had given me, The Knitter’s Friend .  The title page says that it ...