Do you love vintage crochet patterns? Weldon's Practical Needlework includes not only knitting patterns but crochet patterns, too.
The Portuguese Spiral Toe is created through shifting decreases throughout the toe shaping. It’s not a complicated process, but it’s quite unique and creates a distinctive look.
In the United States and abroad, wartime has long involved knitters.
From a child’s petticoat to drawers for ladies and gentleman, we discovered the perfect sampling of knitted and crocheted Victorian undergarments.
Loene McIntyre became a collector of antique needlework tools in the 1980s, and she’s still going strong.
The next stop on our tour of needlework from the seven continents is South America. Follow tour guide for the Americas, Cynthia Lecount Samaké, and head south to the Andes.
Do you need some extra-sturdy socks for the winter months? Double knit those heels and toes the Weldon’s way to keep your feet safe and warm.
Millions of readers adore Agatha Christie, prolific author and playwright; more than a billion copies of her books have sold. How lovely that knitting plays a role in her Miss Marple mysteries, which debuted in 1930 in Murder at the Vicarage.
Once a year, I get to edit Knitting Traditions, which brings in my passion for history.
The knitwear worn by the polar explorers to the South Pole provide the muse for our first project, Angharad Thomas’s “Leading Stoker Edward McKenzie’s Mittens."