I don't remember when I first started knitting. I know I was a small child. My mum and my Grandmother taught me, and I remember working through old Womens Weekly toy patterns and making clothes and accessories for my dolls and teddies.
At it’s most simple, knitting and crochet can be broken down to just a few stitches, simple motions, repeated in easily remembered sequences to create textured patterns and fabric.
But there is much more to it than that.
The way you hold your yarn, hook or needles, the...
Gone are the days where paper patterns were prized like heirlooms as the only way to learn to knit or crochet a particular item. When crafting together was usually for a practical, menial purpose and only when time was found to sit together to make clothing.
