Knitting Now and Then

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

Friday, 31 January 2020

The Wristlet Crochet Ball Holder

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The volunteers working on the Knitting & Crochet Guild Collection have selected 100 objects to show the range of the collection — includ...
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Thursday, 23 January 2020

A Chic Jumper in an Egyptian Design

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Woman's Weekly , July 28, 1923 There is a free knit-along in progress on Facebook at the moment ( here ), hosted by Ellie Reed (@dre...
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Tuesday, 7 January 2020

2019 Books

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I belong to two book groups, and for several years now I have been making Christmas cards for the members of  one of them, showing the books...
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Monday, 25 November 2019

Bridget's Blunder

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Last year, I posted a rhyme, Anna's Adventure , published by Patons & Baldwins about 1946, to advise knitters on how to wash wool.  ...
Thursday, 31 October 2019

1919

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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 ...
Saturday, 19 October 2019

Jamieson's

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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...
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Thursday, 10 October 2019

Shetland Wool Week

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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 ...
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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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