STORE HOURS Victoria Day Weekend

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Victoria Day Weekend Store Hours

Saturday May 16: 12 to 6 pm

Sunday May 17: CLOSED

Monday May 18: CLOSED

Cover of 'M'dlle Riego's Knitting Book' featuring ornate designs and decorative elements.

Victorian Knitting Manuals

Normally I post a little pattern for you, but I feel like a national celebration of the birthday of a long-dead Monarch (Queen Victoria) deserves something a little more …. today I share the digitized collection of Victorian Knitting Manuals, gratis the Univerity of Southampton’s Knitting Reference Library & JStor (I also found a large collection of vintage patterns from Sirdar, but that’s a story from another era).

Cover of 'The Silkworm Series: Knitting Lessons' featuring illustrated leaves, raspberries, a silkworm, and a butterfly, published by Myra & Son in London.
A page titled 'The Art of Knitting' featuring instructions and abbreviations for knitting techniques.

I like the Silkworm Series: Myra’s Knitting Lessons no.1, it has lots of stitch patterns you can swatch & experiment with. You can also find free old-timey (and more recent) knitting books on the Internet Archive. The Art of Knitting from 1892 (brought to you by the Smithsonian), has a bunch of patterns worth exploring.

Cover of 'Old and New Designs in Crochet Work' by Sophie T. La Croix, featuring intricate crochet patterns.

For my beloved Crocheters, there’s lots of Crochet Resources in the Internet Archive for you too (both old-timey and more recent)!

It just goes to show, you can take the girl out of the library and put her in a store full of yarn, but apparently, you can’t take the library out of the girl!

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