"The Knitting Vintage Tutorial Series covers everything you need to know about how to knit from vintage patterns and alter them to fit – without losing one bit of vintage style. While it’s geared toward the vintage knitter, the information in these articles will help you alter any pattern – vintage or modern – with clear explanations of all the finessing and all the math involved in knitting pattern alteration."
Some fabulous tips on working with vintage knitting patterns from Gerry Warner, author of Knit Back In Time, over on the Deramores Blog
Before you embark on that fabulous free vintage knitting pattern you have just found, be careful to check the needle gauge sizes. Depending on which country the pattern was printed, the needle size will vary greatly, hopefully the below chart will help you to decipher the correct size but if your still not sure please just drop me an email, I am only too happy to help!
Before you embark on that fabulous free vintage knitting pattern you have just found, be careful to check the needle gauge sizes. Depending on which country the pattern was printed, the needle size will vary greatly, hopefully the below chart will help you to decipher the correct size but if your still not sure please just drop me an email, I am only too happy to help!
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I am looking for a basic vintage vest pattern for my mother to knit. Just a basic knit and purl pullover V-neck. Can you help?
ReplyDeleteHi Timmy,
ReplyDeleteIs this the kind of thing your after?
http://www.berroco.com/patterns/peter-easy
or this
http://www.bond-america.com/projects/usm_proj/usm_v-neck.html
If not, let me know and I will keep looking! :)