Join knitwear designer Vicki Square on an excursion through knitting Weldon's socks and stockings.
Victorian women knitted their stockings with yarn finer than our contemporary sock yarn.
Slip a copy of 50 Tips from Shetland Knitters, and sit back with your knitting, as you enjoy an active exchange between two expert knitters.
Making felt is an ancient art, possibly the oldest method of creating fabric on record.
Weldon’s-era Victorian knitters had some interesting ideas and innovations for sock heels particular to various countries from the United Kingdom to the continent.
Enjoy this excerpt from “Ladies Useful Stockings to Knit,” an adaptation from Weldon’s Practical Needlework featured in PieceWork March/April 2010.
PieceWork invited Spin Off editor Anne Merrow to give us an inside perspective about Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez's video workshop, Andean Knitting.
The original socks were the most expensive socks for sale in the Gjirokastra gift shop where I purchased them. According to the shopkeeper, the higher price was attributable to the fine quality of the heavy wool yarn used to knit the sock.
We can walk a path together through Weldon’s Practical Needlework, and let those amazing Victorians show us a thing or two. Inspiration is found on every page in the historical needlework techniques and patterns.
In “Knitted Together Through Time” Jacqueline Blix revisits a family heirloom shawl knit by Joseph Sheldon Long, a World War I soldier.