Where do I find my Vintage and Historic Knitting Patterns and Supplies 

Somehow that looks like the most exciting boring job ever 😁

People do start gifting so many things!

That's so cool!

Of course! Our municipal library is closed for restorations right now, that's why I might have forgotten it...

Exciting! Let me know how it goes 😁

Hopefully no moths, so your kid can enjoy it!

Those thrifting influencers making it all look so plentiful!

Well, as many previous videos have shown: I just go for it, and it doesn't always work out 😅

I'm old enough that I've knitted vintage patterns when they were just knitting patterns - and the sizing is a real problem. It's actually why I took to designing my own patterns. Based on a whole lot of tension checks, my knitting tension is "average". But when I knitted a lot of those patterns, I found they were far too large - and I'm someone who likes their clothes on the loose side. With hindsight, I should have worked a tension square and then checked what this was going to translate into for what the pattern claimed was "my size" and then chosen a size that was actually going to work. I have a needle gauge that shows English, American and metric sizes - it's "Birch" brand and I got it at a local craft chain store (in Australia). I would expect that they are still making them - and it's an extremely useful little piece of kit. Interestingly, the gauges that are referred to in piercing stretching are often in the English system - the same as the needle sizes. The needle size is the key to unlocking what thickness of yarn you should be using, provided the pattern does give tension instructions. Earlier patterns don't always. Some of the pattern instructions are going to seem a little odd: casting off at the back of the neck only to pick up the stitches again when it comes to knitting the neck band has always struck me as, let's say, illogical. Some techniques and stitches that we use these days hadn't yet been invented - brioche and the magic loop come to mind. There have also been some changes in knitting vocabulary since those patterns were published. "Knit" stitches were sometimes referred to as "plain" stitches. (Purl was and is purl.) Yarn was generally referred to as "wool". Binding off was generally referred to as casting off. The long tail method of casting on was called the thumb method and the cable cast on was called "casting on with two needles". "Stocking stitch" was sometimes referred to as "plain fabric" - and "stockinette" was unknown.

@@resourcedragonthank you for that! I’ll have to look for that needle gauge it sounds like it would be extremely helpful. I guess I’ll have to make peace with making a lot more gauge swatches as well considering my books have only 2-3 sizes (none of which would fit me if knitted to gauge!)

My granddad gave me all my grandmom's knitting needles and crochet thread, but threw out the patterns because he thought they were of no use 😅

My personal favorite shop is 't Vlijtig Bijtje in Waanrode/Werchter. And online I think Ginger and Thyme is a great place, they have all kinds of yarn :)

If it makes you feel better: I'm a nineties baby and that is also already considered vintage in fashion 😂

Ah yes, forgot all about eBay. Kind of lost its popularity here

As I've always understood it, 30 years is vintage, 100 is antique. So what is "vintage" or "antique" is constantly shifting. But I do sometimes try to make a distinction and often refer to 70s-80s as late-century vintage (as opposed to mid-century 40s-50s). Most of my 40s and 50s patterns were found in consignment shops and used bookstores. I finally picked up my first Kaffe Fassett needlepoint book not too long ago! But was a little sad it didn't have more patterns in it. I need to get his knitting ones, too!

@@retrocraftdreams then I must be vintage oh help

@@elizabethstreeter2145 Don't worry, I am, too! 😂

Even I am vintage now 😁 even the early nineties are 30 years ago now.