Knitting Now and Then

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

Sunday, 27 January 2019

Steve's Jumper

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The Knitting & Crochet Guild collection is moving to new premises very soon, which is exciting but involves a lot of work.  We have been...
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Saturday, 19 January 2019

A Few More Patterns

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Last weekend, I was knitting at Sheringham, on the north Norfolk coast - the Leighton Buzzard branch of the Knitting & Crochet Guild hol...
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Thursday, 10 January 2019

Knitted Garters

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Over Christmas we were trying to do the King William's College quiz in The Guardian.  It is fiendishly difficult, even with the help of ...
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Monday, 7 January 2019

Rosedale Socks

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I have finished my Rosedale socks  - in fact I finished them in time for Christmas.  The pattern is from Ann Kingstone's Cable Knits...
Thursday, 20 December 2018

A £5 Aran Cardigan

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A bag of mixed knitting patterns arrived at the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection this week, including a copy of a magazine called Kni...
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Thursday, 13 December 2018

2018 - A Year Of Books

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Yesterday, one of my two book groups met for our annual Christmas dinner (at the Catch Seafood restaurant in Holmfirth).  Since 2011, I ...
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Sunday, 2 December 2018

The 'Susie' Yarn Holder

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I wrote a few months ago ( here ) about a group of tools and gadgets that had recently been given to the Knitting & Crochet Guild collec...
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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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