Knitting Now and Then

I recently acquired a new addition to my collection of knitting needle gauges.  An exciting acquisition, as I had never seen one for sale be...

  I wrote a couple of posts last year about several knitted garments in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection that were made in the ea...

I saw a skein of knitting yarn in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection recently - Little Dorritt 100% Nylon.   I remembered that I ha...

In the last post, I showed knitting needle brands with names beginning A to M - here I'll show the second half of the alphabet. You migh...

Back in 2014, the volunteers working on the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection had a week of concentrated work trying to sort out the h...

Patons & Baldwins became very good at advertising their wares by the 1930s.  They were publishing about 100 'Helps to Knitters' ...