Resources

Learn to knit or crochet

If you’d like to learn how to knit or crochet, I suggest you start at your local yarn store. That’s the first place I’ve always gone for advice and tips on patterns and supplies. There are also a lot of great websites and videos on YouTube for those who’d like to learn yarn crafts.

Looking for beginner-friendly knitting patterns?

Tin Can Knits, The Simple Collection – https://tincanknits.com/book/the-simple-collection

Interested in creating your own colourwork charts?

Stitch Fiddle – https://www.stitchfiddle.com/en

Vintage patterns

• Home Work. A Choice Collection of Useful Designs for the Crochet and Knitting Needle. Also, Valuable Recipes for the Toilet (Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Rose Publishing, 1891). Read online here!
• Knit Together: A Study of Late Nineteenth-Century Knitting Patterns Through Contemporary Eyes and Hands
• Victoria & Albert Museum: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/1940s-knitting-patterns
• Woman’s Weekly: How to Knit a Vintage Pattern: https://www.womansweekly.com/knitting/vintage-patterns-from-womans-weekly-14783/ 
• Antique Pattern Library: https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/main.htm
• Purple Kitty: https://www.purplekittyyarns.com/

My faves

• Textile Museum of Canada
• Knitting History Forum
• Yarn Harlot
• Arne & Carlos
• A History of Knitting

Supplies

• Mary Maxim
• Knit Picks
• Herb seeds & dried herbs: Richters Herbs (Note: this is an affiliate link. I use dried Lavender flowers from Richters Herbs in my lavender sachets)

Fibre Producers, Resources & Groups

• Cranbrook Acres
• Ontario Fibreshed
• Steele Wool Farm
• TLC Alpacas
• Revolution Wool Company

Knit & Natter Groups

• Huron County Library branches host knitting and stitching groups. Check out their website here for the schedule: https://www.huroncountylibrary.ca/events/

Huron Wristers Kits Pattern Support

We completed a series of Huron Wristers pattern support tutorials. Please go to this link to find the how-to videos.