Knitting Now and Then

  These six balls of angora knitting wool were added to the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection this week.  They were found in a charity...

The spinners J. & J. Baldwin & Partners of Halifax and John Paton, Son & Co. Ltd. of Alloa merged in 1920 to form Patons & B...

Stitchcraft magazine was published every month for 50 years, from 1932 to 1982, except for a few years during the Second World War when pape...

If you look at a lot of old knitting patterns and magazines, as I do, some of the models start to become familiar.  In a few cases, I can pu...

 I don't know who Mrs Leach was, or if she actually existed, but a lot of magazine titles were published under her name. A monthly magaz...

During the past year, while we've been at home doing not very much, I have been adding to my small collection of knitting needle gauges....

Since last March, and the first UK lockdown, I have written very little on this blog. It's not that I don't have anything to say - t...