Grandma knitting

Crafting is a pursuit as old as time, with a long legacy of scrappy resourcefulness. Check out these vintage photos of the crafters who came before us.

THIS IS SO US IN A COUPLE OF DECADES @Nikka Hugo-Yap (But wait, why is she using knitting needles on a crochet piece and why is her spool of pink thread upside down?)

"My grandmother has already traced all of our family history, our work is done." How often I've heard this claim among LDS church members. A…

ALPENSTRASSE ~ Memories of my childhood in Bern Switzerland

etta brown, knitting medal winner

Grandmother's Knitting

Grandparentcore is an aesthetic related to the common aesthetic depiction of grandparents as a whole. It is a comfortable, whimsical (but not necessarily chaotic) aesthetic centered around focusing on things we enjoy most. Though it may appear simple or even naive at first glance...

Coral Charles-Dunne, 91, from Birmingham, has knitted dozens of the unusual educational tools as part of a project to inform expectant and new mums about breastfeeding. She says spends about two hours creating each of the woolly boobs and makes them in a range of sizes, knitting for up to six hours per day. Coral first picked up her knitting needles when she was eight, and still knits a range of items in her spare time. "My fingers are busy from six o'clock until midnight every evening," she…

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