Hello all, I’ve diversified and have ported my blog over to my new website, Skiff Vintage Knitting Patterns. Can you guess what you’ll find there? Go on, have a stab in the dark. Obviously a host of great 1940s and ’50s vintage knitting patterns for sale, but also free vintage patterns, vintage knitting tips, and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘PROJECTS: Knit & Run Works in Progress’
May 30, 2009
Vogue Vintage Bib Blouse
Getting very excited about my next vintage project – a blouse pattern from Vogue Knitting No.35 with ‘a deep tuck-lined bib with tiny round collar’. I’ve had a scan through the instructions and can’t see any glaring errors, so fingers crossed shouldn’t be too complicated. I’m tempted by the skirt (you can knit it as [...]
March 17, 2009
Weaving – a way to solve SABLE?
This Knit & Tonic article made me grin and rang a few bells … I get so obsessed with one particular craft it almost becomes stressful and I have to take up another craft to relieve the pressure. Admittedly it’s not a professional day job and I’m not writing a book, but you get the [...]
March 15, 2009
Heron
Our lovely friends Ged & Wendy have just moved to an old rambling farmhouse in Devon, acquiring 2 kittens, a pig and a couple of hens along the way (much to the delight of their own brood). Ged’s an artist and film art director and Wendy lectures and researches in sexual and social history, so [...]
March 1, 2009
More cushionage
I made some cushions out of a floral vintage pelmet (finished off with some old, small pearl buttons), which ‘Le Magasin’, the stylish antique/coffee shop in Cliffe High Street are proudly displaying in their windows. Rather nicely set off by a bit of rural gothic draped over the back of the chair, although the fur [...]
February 24, 2009
She’s thrifty, she’s nifty, she thinks it’s 1950
Well 1940 didn’t rhyme. Ah, Knitting Fashions of the 1940s … I’ve had my eye on this book for ages and now it’s mine, all mine. I’ve ordered some great 2-ply from Jamieson & Smith, a wonderful Shetland wool specialist in Scotland, I’ve got my size 12 needles and I’m ready to go. It’s also [...]
January 15, 2009
50s Chair Fabric
Here’s the cool ’50s fabric I’m planning to do my new chair up with – just hope it’s not another year before I post the end results.
This atomic fabric is getting so expensive now, there seems to be a huge demand for it out there (at least on Ebay). It’s nigh on impossible to find [...]
January 12, 2009
New Chair Project
Here’s the latest addition to my upholstery cannon which has been cluttering up our house for the last few months looking sorry for itself. I honestly thought I’d finish that big old bird sooner but it dragged on, and in the meantime I’ve acquired a few more projects looking at me forlornly and accusingly: ‘you [...]
January 10, 2009
Chair Joy
My first blog entry was a lengthy description of the battered up old chair I was planning to re-upholster and a promise to blog about my progress as I went along. You might be forgiven for thinking I’d ditched the whole idea as it has never graced these pages since (my niece-in-law recently wittily commented [...]
December 28, 2008
New Needles
My dearest friend bought me these gorgeous bamboo needles and case by Cath Kidston for Christmas. I’ve been promising myself for years that I’d start a new collection of needles – I’ve always used my Mum’s old-fashioned metal ones (plus a few fancy plastic ones she must have splashed out on somewhere along the line) [...]
