Image from the V&A website
It is so cold here at the moment. If we're lucky, it crawls up to ten degrees (celsius) by lunchtime each day, and it's been widely acknowledged around about the place that it's one of our coldest winters for quite a while. Now I know that those of you reading in Europe and North America are sunning yourselves in the rays of summer goodness (enjoy it while you can!) but personally, I am thinking of wool, knitting and sweaters! So, I was very pleased to find free downloadable 1940s knitting patterns at the Victoria and Albert Museum's website. If you're feeling the chill and you're a vintagey type person, check them out at http://www.vam.ac.uk/users/node/1744 Personally I have my eye on the V-neck.
Speaking of the V&A and in keeping with my theme of late, there are also lots of lovely bits about different eras of dress on the site too. I made a beeline for the nineteenth century section myself!
And, with yet another segue, I'm reading The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt at the moment. Love it. Lots of lovely Victorian era detail. Have you read Byatt? I think she's a love-her-or-hate-her kind of writer. What do you think?
2 comments:
Gah! the patterns -thanks!
I loved The Children's Book but some of it disturbed me very much. Looking forward to hearing what you think.
No worries, librarygirl. Disturbing? Right, I hadn't got a sense of that so far but I'm only a little way in. I'll let you know what I think.
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