Vintage Purls

One of the difficulties with working with vintage patterns is working out what materials one should use given the original pattern was written for something that is no longer produced and about which it is not easy to find information. Most of the vintage patterns I have specify a weight for the amount of yarn [...]

There are no babies in my family/friend circle to knit for at present. And for some reason there’s been a drought on girls when the babies do come. These two factors be damned, I want to knit something very girly and I want to knit it now. The result is “buttercup”:

A little pattern from Patons [...]