Penelope, now in her early 70s was interviewed by me about learning to sew at school, and she had many a story, but this one seems particularly topical. Ingrid: So what kind of sewing did you do at your first school? Penelope: I only ever did sewing with pennies. I could do round pennies. [laughs] […]
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Thank you for all of your entries for the competition to win a copy of Susan Crawford’s new book, Coronation Knits. I have selected a winner using a random number generator. I took the first comment to be number 1 in the sequence and the last to be number 17, and the lucky winner was
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The Jubilee weekend might have been a few weeks ago now, your bunting might be flagging and the street party a distant memory, but fear not, for you can keep the good times going in the form of a beautiful new book by vintage knitwear designer, Susan Crawford. As part of its blog tour, today
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Ah, those April Showers. They’re still going, and frankly, at the moment it’s more like a May Deluge. It seems a time for staying in, reading books and blogs, knitting, baking and snuggling up. Here are a few things that I wanted to share with you to help along your own rainy weekends. I
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I wish it were a knitting day… Ah, who am I to complain? It’s a working and research day instead! Just have to dodge the heavy showers on the way there and back. No time for train knitting on the way to work today, though. Instead, I’m reading feminist and Fabian, Maud Pember Reeves’, ‘Round
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