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Free 40’s Knitting Pattern – For The Junior Miss Stitchcraft Booklet
This should have been a blog bank holiday special, but I’m a bit behind schedule. Here is the whole booklet from Stitchcraft “For the Junior Miss”, which is from 1949 according to The British Library....
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30s Style – The Lady – A Jumper With Slimming Lines
EDIT – See the whole pattern here. I had a lovely holiday a couple of weeks ago. Undaunted by rain, wind and sleet, Mr Sunnystitcher and I visited the Cotswolds, stayed in a lovely old cottage with an...
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Free Vintage Knitting Pattern – Beatnik Chick Turtle Neck from Jaeger – 60s
Elegantly depressed 60s ladies prefer Jaeger Tropic-Spun wool. I imagine they are listening to Leonard Cohen and really feeling his lyrics in their souls. Fantastically serious 60s lady jumpers are for...
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Free Vintage Knitting Pattern: From The Lady Oct 1930 Knitted Jumper with A...
Thank heavens for the British Library and even bigger thans to the Rare Book team. I was tearing my hair out searching the huge catalogue for this issue one issue of The Lady, to complete the pattern...
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Off Topic: I love the British Library
Slightly off topic – but this makes sense if anyone has seen my last post in which a missing part of a knitting pattern from a vintage copy of the Lady was tracked down and scanned at the British...
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Free Vintage Knitting Pattern: Stitchcraft no.143 – 1930s Ladies Jumper with...
Bobble Stitch is something I’ve never tried, but for this pattern I am very tempted. It’s treasure I scanned at the British Library today, having looked through the Library Catalogue at home and found...
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Free Vintage Knitting Pattern: Like Miss Lemon’s jumper in Poirot no. 1
Remember how I am a bit obsessed with Miss Lemon’s jumper? See my previous post. Finally I think I’ve found a fairly similar knitting pattern, then I found a second one. Here is the first, from...
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Free Vintage Knitting Pattern: Like Miss Lemon’s jumper in Poirot no. 2
Following on from yesterday’s Miss Lemon jumper, here is another. It has a slightly different neck embellishment, in a scarf style rather than a bow (I think I prefer the bow. but I imagine a mash up...
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Fashion History Lesson – Dior’s New Look Wasn’t New and Chanel Didn’t Like It.
The classic idea of 50s fashion is the New Look. I’ve read a lot of fashion history books lately (and will do a post on the best ones soon) but here is a little of what has been on my mind. Did you...
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Agatha Christie – New Exhibition of Photographs
I’m such a big fan that I’ve visited her summer house Greenway twice (and photographed her book collection in minute detail, if anyone wants to see those). Next time I go, I’m planning to stay...
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Free Vintage Knitting Pattern: Stitchcraft Leaflet 147 from the Thirties....
The blog is still in a 30’s groove, as I share the treasures from my last scanning trip to the British Library. Before I share, can I ask if any readers have any pattern requests? Seen a magazine or...
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Free Vintage Knitting Pattern Stitchcraft 133 from the Thirties
Such a lovely star shaped collar and kind of a wiggly waveform stitch, makes this one a twice as interesting pattern. Bust 33-35 inch bust in 3 ply (incidentally, which is the correct way to write it,...
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Free Vintage Knitting Pattern Stitchcraft 139 from the thirties
This is a late thirties cardigan for a medium sized figure. Bust 35 – 37 inches. It was date stamped into the British Museum on 20th March 1939. Here are the pages as three pdfs – Stitchcraft 139 (1)...
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Free Vintage Knitting Pattern: Sideways Knit Short Sleeved Jumper That is...
OMG Isn’t this fabulous! and it’s knitted sideways with multi-coloured stripes. It’s also wearable in Spring and Summer as it has short sleeves (and here in the UK it’s going to be the hottest I’ve...
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Free Vintage Knitting Pattern: Spotty Sweater for Beginners
Firstly hello to all the lovely people who have been looking at my site. I’m always amazed by the amount and surprised by the global reach, so a sunny hello and welcome to knitters, dressmakers and...
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Free Vintage Knitting Pattern: Off-set Rib Short Sleeved Thirties Jumper
This “shirt jumper” is from earlier in the 1930’s and was bound into a book at the British Museum. Unfortunately this gives a bit of a wobble to the page when scanning. Did you know that the scanners I...
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Free Vintage Knitting Pattern: Embroidered Zigzags Short-sleeved Sweater From...
It’s nearly the end of my series of thirties knits scanned at the British Library, but don’t fret vintage pattern addicts – I have a hoard of 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s patterns to scan from my own...
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Free Vintage Pattern: Striped Details on a Smart Cardigan
Here is leaflet 228 from Stitchcraft, last of the scans I made on my last trip to the British Library. My plan is to go back and scan from different sources, Good Needlework for example and look at...
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Free Vintage Knitting Magazine – Stitchcraft from June 1952
As promised, I’m departing from the thirties, looking back into my own collection of knitting ephemera and on to the fifties. Here is an issue of Stitchcraft which has appeared in my collection,...
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