Knitting Now and Then

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

Thursday, 25 April 2019

Slaithwaite

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I have mentioned that the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection has moved to a new home - we have now been based in Slaithwaite for two mo...
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Monday, 22 April 2019

Woollen Stockings

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I was looking through some Stitchcraft magazines in the Knitting & Crochet guild collection and came across this striking image of disem...
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Friday, 19 April 2019

A Fascinating Check

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I haven't posted anything here for a while, so I'll try to catch up a bit in the next week or so.  I have been busy over on Instagr...
Sunday, 24 March 2019

A Cashmere Lace Scarf

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I have just finished (well, actually a couple of weeks ago now) a beautiful scarf in Yarntelier Cashmere Lace.     I got the yarn fro...
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Sunday, 10 March 2019

Fair Isle in Cotton

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I have written a few posts about Fancy Needlework Illustrated,  and an article in Piecework magazine that I wrote about here .  It's o...
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Sunday, 3 March 2019

Mary Quant knitting patterns

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The lack of posts recently is due to The Move - the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection's move to new premises in Slaithwaite.  It h...
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Tuesday, 12 February 2019

50 Years of Patons patterns

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It's Tuesday and up to now (for the past few years) I have usually been at Lee Mills on a Tuesday, working on the Knitting & Crochet...
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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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