Individual patterns for members Archives - Knitting & Crochet Guild

Front of Patons leaflet 182 (3d) "to fit 35 inch bust". Lady wearing half-lentgth sleeve jumper with horizontal zig-zag design.

Patons C 182 (3d)

Patons leaflet C 182 (3d) for lady’s sweater with short sleeves and a zig-zag pattern. Ailsa wore her version of this in the final of the first series of the Game of Wool.

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Cover of Patons & Baldwin's Helps for Knitters 436. Bathing Suite showing pale wearing one-piece bathing suit leaning against a deck chair.

P&B Helps to Knitters 436 – Bathing Suit

This Bathing Suit pattern was advertised in 1933.

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Cover of Patons & Balwdin's Helps to Knitters 4/452 showing a lady wearing a one-piece horizontally striped bathing suit and a cape.

P&B Helps to Knitters – 4/452 – Bathing Outfit

A pattern for a Bathing Outfit, published in 1933.

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Knitted Coats & Caps: Coat and Ronling Cap

Patons Helps to Knitters IX (1d)

Knitted coats and caps.

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Cover of Sirdar pattern 1142 4d showing lady wearing long sleeved Fair Isle cardigan with rows of cross motifs separated by horizontal lines. THere is a plain band at the waist.

Lady's Fair Isle Jacket

Sirdar 1142 (4d)

Lady’s Fair Isle Jacket

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Weldons Sixpenny Series 130 – Sleeveless Sweater

1920s Fair Isle Man’s Pullover.

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Cover of Daily Telegraph leaflet: Roya; Baby's Fisherman's Sweater. Sweater with cable, arrow and honeycomb design surrounded by ribbons and posies.

Image credit: The Daily Telegraph

Royal Baby’s Fisherman’s Sweater

A toddler-sized traditional gansey

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Cover of Rowan Estonial Floral Jacket leaflet. Bishop of Leicester sitting on a chair wearing the jacket. THere is a colour motif blanked and a pair of gloves on the seat beside him and a mitre near his legs.

Image credit: Susan Raven, The Sunday Times Magazine and Richard Dudley-Smith

Rowan Estonian Floral Jacket

Jacket designed by Richard Rutt for Rowan, and offered as a free pattern in the Sunday Times magazine in 1984.

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Cover of Patons leaflet showing lady wearing geometric pattern Fair Isle waistcoat and man wearing a sleeveless sweater fersion of the same pattern in different colours.

Patons E 1595 (B)

Unisex Fair Isle slipover and waistcoat.

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Cover of P&B leaflet 89 "Sauquhar Gloves". Lady holding binoculars wearing a pair of Sanqhuar design gloves

Patons D 87 (4d)

Sanquhar gloves.

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