Knitting Now and Then

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

Wednesday, 28 February 2018

A Cowl and a Pair of Socks

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I haven't written for quite a while about what I've been knitting, but I have finished two things in January and February, so it...
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Wednesday, 7 February 2018

More Knitting Needles

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As part of the Big Clear Up at Lee Mills last week, we did a lot of work sorting out knitting needles. They were left over from Hook and Ne...
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Sunday, 4 February 2018

Patons Lucelle

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Whatever happened to January?  It doesn't feel like we've had 31 days since the New Year, and yet here we are, past the end of Janua...
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Saturday, 20 January 2018

Quiz

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On Thursday, we had the January meeting of the Huddersfield Knitting & Crochet Guild branch.  As last January, we had a quiz set by Mari...
Monday, 15 January 2018

A New Yarn Shop in 1919

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I was browsing some online newspapers today, looking for something else, when I found an account from May 1919 of someone opening a wool sh...
Wednesday, 10 January 2018

1978

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This year is the 40th anniversary of the Knitting & Crochet Guild, and Guild members are being encouraged to make something to recall 19...
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Saturday, 30 December 2017

Christmas Presents

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I don't usually knit Christmas presents - I know from past experience that it's just creating an extra source of stress in getting t...
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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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