The List of My Desires by Grégoire Delacourt Translated by Anthea Bell As can be seen from my annual stats review (here if you like that kind of thing!), the country I visited the most to read in translation from last year was France. I suspect that’s going to continue this year too, for I have Read More
Tag: Knitting
What does this measure?
This weekend, I have a mystery object for you … Found lurking in an unsorted box of bits and pieces, probably from my late Mum’s, this is an Abel Morrall’s Metal Gauge. But what does it measure precisely? I know it’s for knitting needles – and pre-metric (the 5 hole doesn’t correspond to 5mm for Read More
Knit one, purl one and all that …
(republished into its original place in the time-line from my lost post archive. See the rest of this series of posts here.) I haven’t done one of my ephemera posts on old papers and clippings found in my late Mum’s hoard for ages, but came across these two knitting patterns recently which piqued my interest… A Read More
The World of Ephemera #8
Wool This week’s ephemera post is about a piece of paper that has hidden secrets! Who would have thought that an unpreposessing leaflet like this on the right which appears to be the equivalent of a paint chart for wool would open out into something as glorious as this below … In fact it opens Read More