Knitting Now and Then

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

Monday, 13 July 2020

Washing Socks

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Back in February, I went to an exhibition, An English Lady's Wardrobe , at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.  It showed the cloth...
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Saturday, 23 May 2020

The Viyella Knitting Recorder

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Anyone who follows me on Instagram (@barbaraknitsagain) might have seen that earlier this month, I posted about a Viyella Knitting Recorder ...
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Sunday, 10 May 2020

Made in Abyss Socks

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Time seems to be behaving very strangely under lock-down.  It seems to be passing very slowly - nothing much is happening, the days blur int...
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Sunday, 22 March 2020

Strange Times

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Thursday is usually a knitting day for me.  In the morning, I meet a group of friends to knit in Cafe Society in Huddersfield.  In the eveni...
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Thursday, 27 February 2020

Jumpers and Sports Wear in 1931

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 Leach's Sixpenny Knitting Series was published from 1920 to 1935, according to the British Library catalogue - I wrote about one of ...
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Sunday, 23 February 2020

A Prize Winning Jumper

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When we were in London two weeks ago, I spent a few hours in the British Library (one of my favourite places).  I had ordered some periodica...
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Thursday, 13 February 2020

More Knitting Needles

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This post is all about knitting needles, so if they don't interest you, you might like to stop reading now . Katie at  Crafty Praxis ,...
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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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