Knitting Now and Then

 In the last post, I wrote about outfits in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection that were knitted in the early 1950s from 1920s patt...

I wrote about the Coats-Patons donation in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection in my last post, and said there that some of them are...

In 2014, the Knitting & Crochet Guild received a donation from Coats plc of an archive of about 60 garments.  Coats plc at that time own...

  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...