Knitting Now and Then

Last year, I posted a rhyme, Anna's Adventure , published by Patons & Baldwins about 1946, to advise knitters on how to wash wool.  ...

I'm still catching up on writing about Shetland Wool Week, and this post is about the talk I gave at the Shetland Museum as part of the ...

While I was in Shetland for Wool Week, I went on a tour of Jamieson's Mill at Sandness. It's about 30 miles from Lerwick, on the wes...

Last week I was in Shetland, staying in Lerwick, for the 10th Shetland Wool Week. I had never been to Shetland before (or in fact anywhere ...

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...

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...