I’ve acquired several new items for my collection full of patterns deisgned for service men and women during World War II. I’m very fond of patterns from the 1940s and have always had an interest in the “home front” aspect of WWII.
They also serve who only stand and wait knit.
I’ve added three new patterns from [...]
I’ve written up my favourite glove pattern (as I’ve adapted it from the vintage original). I figure that my modern rewrite is probably easier to follow than the original.
So, download the pdf file (212kb).
I hope it hasn’t got any mistakes in it but please let me know if you spot anything funny and I’ll correct [...]
I recently acquired three “new” old craft magazines. These three are all Stitch magazines, a local New Zealand product from the late 1940s through the 1950s. I have a good collection of these already. Two of these new numbers contain a “Needlecraft from Readers” section which does not appear in my earlier volumes of the [...]
