Making sense of vintage knitting terms
I’ve never seen patterns from the 1800 hundreds. The oldest patterns I have are from the 1940’s and the knitting terms then are pretty much the same as what we use now.
Knit a book cover!
Good way to preserve your favorite books!
How to line mittens with fleece.
Digital knitting machine
What do you think about this? I think it is a pretty neat idea, but I haven’t learned to use my regular knitting machine.
Another website for free patterns.
Be careful. One click leads to another and to another and to another……before I knew it I spent a couple hours wandering through free patterns of all kinds of items, not just blankets! Of course I had to download a couple……………..
Where do you go for patterns?
I subscribed to a daily news letter called Knitting Paradise. It has several different sections and some days I jut skim through, but usually always look at the pictures posted of what other knitter/crocheters have made. Below are links that you probably have seen and some you have not. I know there are millions more out there, here is just a few that are popular with the knitting guild members.
http://www.knittingparadise.com
https://www.allfreeknitting.com
http://www.redheart.com/free-patterns
http://www.abc-knitting-patterns.com/
http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns
https://www.knittingpatterncentral.com/directory.ph
http://www.knitpicks.com/patterns/FREE_Knitting_Patterns__L300218.html?.
https://www.yarn.com/categories/free-knitting-patterns
https://www.purlsoho.com/create/tag/free-knitting-pattern
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