Knitting Now and Then
Mostly about knitting history. Sometimes about what I'm knitting. Sometimes about other things too.
Thursday, 31 August 2017
1940 Knitting Fashions
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We are in the process of scanning the covers of the patterns in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection, focusing for now on the earlies...
Thursday, 10 August 2017
Jersey Suits for Little Boys
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We are gradually recording and cataloguing the pattern leaflets in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection, of which there are a lot. (...
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Monday, 7 August 2017
1963
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I love old magazines, so when I saw a 1963 copy of Flair magazine in an Oxfam bookshop, I bought it. Flair was a monthly fashion magazine ...
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Wednesday, 26 July 2017
'Leaf and Trellis' Stockings
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Anyone who was at the Knitting & Crochet Guild Convention in Birmingham earlier this month might have seen a pair of 19th century knitt...
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Monday, 24 July 2017
My Linen Drape Scarf
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I mentioned in my last post that at the show-and-tell session at the Guild Convention 2 weeks ago, I showed the summer scarf knitted in Rowa...
Saturday, 15 July 2017
Guild Convention in Birmingham
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It's been a busy week, so I am only just getting around to writing about the Knitting & Crochet Guild Convention which was in Birmin...
Friday, 30 June 2017
Practical Knitting in 1886
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I was sorting out some miscellaneous Weldon's publications in the Guild collection this week. Several of them had lost their front cove...
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