Fiddlehead hat

The Fiddlehead Hat, companion to the beloved fiddlehead mittens, is done!

V&A virtual collection

Follow this unwieldy link to the V&A collection of knitted crafts. An extraordinary collection and worth checking out:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/features/knitting/objects/index.php?action=&hits=&page=&pages=&object_type=&country=&start_year=&end_year=&object=&artist=&maker=

The 16th century gloves knit in red silk and silver caught my imagination.

Knitting Geekdom: Old School PDFs

The American Red Cross Museum has PDFs on its website of WWII patterns. The PDFs are scans of original patterns, so not only are the patterns old and nifty, I love the typewriter formatting and hand scrawled pencil markings in the margins. Check it out: http://www.redcross.org/museum/exhibits/knits.asp.