No Yarn Left Behind

I have been quietly in love with the green and brown uniform from the Women's Land Army in the online display from the Imperial War Museum and in one Australian collection. So armed with lots of reference photos, some appropriately green 1970s 5ply yarn and a few of the available free resources I quietly cast on my own.

Land Girls wore practical clothing suited to farm work, including woollen garments to keep warm during chilly mornings. Fingerless mittens were popular because they allowed dexterity while protecting hands from cold weather. Knitting these mittens was a common pastime, and patterns like the free one shared here were widely used.

This free 1947 pattern for simple quick knit bed socks are perfect to keep your toes cosy.

Replacing some very sad sorry two needle hand knit socks using a 1945 Australian Woman's Weekly pattern.

and a free 1940s beanie pattern Apparently, the online knitting crowd has gone full-on Vlogmas crazy on YouTube this year. It seems like...

Spoiler alert: this is the completed vest she never finished "Do you have a good pattern for a plain men's vest" asked Mum. She had come...