The History of Knitting

I have been searching the net for the history of Scottish knitting as my Great Great Grandparents come to Australia from Scotland in the 1870's to a Shale Mining town in the NSW Southern Highlands called "Joadja Creek" which is now a Ghost town, in the last few years the area has been sold off and made into acreages, but the town itself was bought and is now open I think by bookings on weekends. It is the most lovely place to visit, where the remains of homes still are, my family lived in the bark huts, they are even featured on the front cover of a book about Joadja Creek written by Leonie Knapman, sitting in front of their bark hut, which is very special to me. This is my mothers side of the family.

While searching Scottish Knitting History, I have seen some really beautiful fine knitting done by the women and girls in their villages, they knitted constantly, even while walking. I am getting all inspired to start something in 2ply and very lacy. But that will have to wait until after I do a bit more stash reduction before the Knitters Guild May sale, then I will concentrate on knitting for me.

I just did a Google search this morning of "History of Knitting" and in Wikipedia came up a very interesting read. Go check it out, at the end it even mentions about the popularity now of knitting, knitting blogs and knitalongs such as Kate Gilbert's "Clapotis" and the Yarn Harlot's Knitting Olympics with over 4000 knitters, when there were only 2,400 athletes.

Well everyone we are down in print and making history. Go Knitters!