Now I’m living a town that sees snow every Winter, I’ve become very interested in hats, scarves and gloves. I haven’t knit any gloves with fingers before – only mittens and fingerless mitts. I get the feeling that it might be a good idea to start knitting “real” gloves, with full length…
vintage patterns
Cosy Koalas
It was fifteen months ago that I first posted about a 1936 pattern for a koala tea cosy. Although he looks nothing like the picture on the pattern, he turned out quite well. I decided to make him a little branch of flowering gum to hold onto and stitch it to his paws….
Retro Monday – Woolcraft
Patons Woolcraft is a booklet of knitting and crochet patterns and instructions that has been published in various versions since the 1930’s. A current version is available but it seems to be a British edition – so I’ve only seen it in online shops. I have three different editions which were all published…
Retro Monday – Saccharine Sixties
In the previous Retro Monday post, I featured some styles from the early sixties and I remarked that they were fairly typical of what 60’s women’s wear looked like before it got all cutesy. Well, this week’s patterns are good examples of the cutesy look I was referring to. These dresses are from…
Retro Monday – Synthetic Style
It’s been AGES since my last post – a combination of a crazy work schedule and an antarctic winter in Ballan makes it hard to find time for blogging. But now I’m off work with the plague. I don’t have the energy to knit but I can certainly type a few paragraphs….
Retro Monday – Reynolds Lopi
This week’s Retro Monday looks like the late 60’s or early 70’s to me. As is usual with vintage patterns there is no publication date so have to take queues from the fashion and styling. The patterns combine traditional Icelandic colourwork with some of the worst crimes of fashion. Fringed vests, ponchos and…