I have been continuing to work on my From Square To Eternity design (see blog post from March 25 for the first stages). This is what I was aiming for These are probably as near as I’m going to get. The image never disappears when you look directly at the print. I think this is …
Month: March 2019
Beehives
Prior to 1920, J. and J. Baldwin’s Wool and Paton’s Yarn’s, were separate companies both manufacturing wool for commercial purposes. They merged and went into producing wool for home knitters. They published patterns under Paton’s Rose and Baldwin’s Beehive trademarks then quickly became Paton’s & Baldwin’s (or P & B) and used only the Beehive …
From Square To Eternity
One of our favourite mathematical designs is something we call From Square To Eternity. It will be very familiar to mathematicians and quilters. The four triangles that make up the new square have the same area as everything that has gone before. If you find that difficult to believe, imagine folding in the last set …
Viyella Gauges
I have four Viyella knitting needle gauges. They are basically the same but are all different. Some differences are more obvious than others. The same picture is on the back of three of the drums. It is of two children, in the style of Mabel Lucie Attwell but I cannot confirm that she was the …
A New Puppy
We get lots of requests for more baby blankets and it’s been quite a long time since the last one so Steve designed this cute little puppy blanket. It is very difficult to photograph illusion knitting. When you look straight at the knitting you only see narrow stripes. The image appears when you look from …
The Bells
I used to collect knitting needle gauges – for a rather perverse reason. Our first knitting book (Woolly Thoughts) was about modular knitting using any needles and any yarn to make a garment of the right size without ever having to knit a tension square (known as a gauge square, or swatch, in US). Many …