Knitting Now and Then

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

Saturday, 31 August 2019

Vanity

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A couple of weeks ago, a local member of the Knitting & Crochet Guild gave me three bags full of patterns for the Guild collection, incl...
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Thursday, 22 August 2019

Roadside Beanie

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I'm going to Shetland Wool Week at the end of September - the first time I've been to Wool Week, and the first time I've been to...
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Monday, 19 August 2019

Esplen-d'or

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Last Friday was Granny Square Day 2019  on Instagram. The idea was to make a virtual blanket, using Instagram's grid format to combine p...
Saturday, 10 August 2019

Beehive Recipe Cards

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We are now very used to the idea that manufacturers of knitting yarns publish patterns to promote the use of their yarns. In Britain, this p...
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Friday, 2 August 2019

Fair Isle Knitting Made Easy

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I'm not suggesting that I am about to make Fair Isle knitting easy - the post title comes from a Weldon's Sixpenny Series booklet t...
Monday, 29 July 2019

Crochet Gloves

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On Saturday, I went to Lincoln with a suitcase of some of my favourite pieces from the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection, to show them...
Monday, 8 July 2019

Home Journal

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A few weeks ago, I was going through some knitting and crochet patterns in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection that were free with n...
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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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