The Vintage Knitter
Blogs I follow
- Tales from the Faraway Tree
- Hungry and nostalgic
- Janice Issitt Life and Style
- "It's Nostalgia and its Riches"
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- 1940s Family on Rations
- A Cottage in Totteridge
- A Knitter from the Past
- A Passion for Vintage Textiles
- A Stitching Odyssey
- A Woolly Yarn
- According to Matt...
- Adeline's Attic Vintage
- All Aboard the Sky Lark!
- ALoadofOldTat
- Angelica
- Anne's Blog
- Annie Loves.... Vintage
- Bake Do and Mend
- Betty & Violet ~ Message in a Teacup
- Bluebell and Rosie
- Bunny Mummy
- Buttoned up Betsy
- by gum, by golly!
- Cats, Dogs and Eiderdowns
- Chronically Vintage
- Clicky Needles
- cotswoldvintagefair
- Country Cottage Chic
- COWBOYS & CUSTARD
- Craft & Grow
- Create / Enjoy
- Crinoline Robot
- Dead Men's Spex
- Deckard's Guide
- Delightful Handwork
- Designer knitwear and nature
- Dispatches from the Deise
- Dolls house miniatures, textiles and tiny treasures
- DREAMING OF THE SIMPLE LIFE
- Eclectic Ephemera
- Eclectic Gipsyland
- English Buildings
- Everything's Tickety Boo
- Fairy Bluebell's Craft Adventure
- Faith Hope and Charity Shopping
- For The Love Of Pete Steele
- Frugal Queen
- funkymonkey
- gnittinknam
- Golden Girl of the West
- Granny Chic Gal
- Handmade By Heather B
- Hazel and Blue
- Homesick Blues
- It Works For Me.........It May Work For You Too.......
- It's A Charmed Life
- Jolie Laide Beauty Blog
- Julie's Scrapbook
- jumbles and pompoms
- Just Call Me Ruby
- Kelly-Marie Burdekin
- Keshling Pulls It Off!!
- Kirby Jane
- Kitsch and Curious
- Knitting Now and Then
- Lady of the Greenwood
- LandGirl's Library
- LandGirl1980
- Lavender Attic
- Lemonade Kitty
- Linda's photo blog
- Little Gem's Diary
- lucy violet vintage
- M is for make
- M. Eva-Marie's Blog
- Made in a Muddle
- Magpie Chic
- male pattern boldness
- MaryLou Cinnamon
- Millie's Curiosities
- Milly & Dottie
- Miss B's Daydreams
- Miss Ginger makes
- Miss Magpie's musings
- Missy Vintage
- mondo a-go-go
- mondo a-go-go
- Ms1940McCall
- Mum's Simply Living Blog
- My Friends Call me Nelly
- Nicole Needles
- Niki Fretwell
- One Girl, One Quest
- out back tania
- Penny Dreadful Vintage
- Penny Dreadful Vintage
- Perdita's Pursuits
- Polyester Princess
- PoppyCorkHill
- Pretty Much Penniless
- Protector of Vintage
- Pull Your Socks Up!
- Renée And The Cat's Meow
- Rustic Vintage Country
- Sara Tomlinson Designs
- Sarah Jane's Addiction
- Scarlett Loves Elvis
- Sentimental Journey
- Serge & Tweed
- Sharon McSwiney
- Shortbread & Ginger
- Simply Sue's Simple Diary
- Snoodlebug
- So much yarn, so little time.
- Suzy's Vintage Attic
- Tea and Crumpets
- Textile Treasure Seeker
- The Vintage Pattern Files
- The 1940s Family
- The Adventures of Gingeyginge
- The Blueberry Patch
- The Butterfly Balcony
- The Folly Bird
- The Home Front Housewife
- The Little Red Squirrel
- The Little Vintage Company
- The Nailasaurus | UK Nail Art Blog
- The paper doll says "let's have tea!"
- The Secondhand Years
- The Vintage Bothy
- The Vintage Sheet Blog
- The Washerwoman
- The White House
- The Worcester Flea
- This and that
- This Old Life
- Thorne Garnet
- Tickety Boo Tupney
- Tickety-boo
- Ticking Stripes
- Ticking Stripes Blogshop
- Tilly and the Buttons
- Tiny Holdings
- Tiny Toadstool Cottage with Dorothy Jayne
- Trashsparkle
- Unmitigated England
- Upcycling, Vintage and Other Life....
- Very Berry Handmade
- Vintage And Handmade Fairs
- Vintage At The Corner House
- Vintage Chic
- Vintage Hoards
- Vintage in a Modern World
- Vintage Jane
- VINTAGE MUM
- Vintage Tea Time
- vintage town
- Vintage Vicki
- Vintage Vixen
- Vintage,pretty & shabby
- what do you make of my cake?
- Where for art thou yarn?
- Women through History
- Worcester Vintage - Home of W.A.V.E & The Vintage Guide to Worcester
- Working-Mom
Gender | Female |
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Introduction | I'm a freelance writer with a love for social history, secondhand stuff, knitting, upcycling and collecting enamel advertising signs. |
Interests | My favourite artists include Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, Mark Rothko, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Nash, Edward Ardizzone, Rob Ryan, Angie Lewin, Francis Farmar, Robin Tanner |
Favorite Movies | The Titfield Thunderbolt, The Wicked Lady, Carry on Camping, Withnail & I, Chocolat, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, Passport to Pimlico, Rear Window, Sky West & Crook'd, Gosford Park, Blithe Spirit, Brief Encounter, School for Scoundrels, It Always Rains on Sundays, Gone to Earth, Went the Day Well, Kind Hearts & Coronets, The Ladykillers, The Lavender Hill Mob, Mrs Miniver, Cottage to Let, Hot Fuzz, Pulp Fiction, the Jason Bourne trilogy, The Red Shoes, A Canterbury Tale, Blue Juice, Heathers, Enemy of the State, Rebecca, Leon, Clerks, Mallrats, The Devil Wears Prada ... |
Favorite Music | I love Kate Bush and am also into Motorhead, Hawkwind, Robert Plant, Metallica, Dead Can Dance, Fish era Marillion, Stevie Nicks, Rush, Natacha Atlas, lots of 1980s heavy metal and hair metal stuff, Van Der Graf Generator, Goldfrapp, Whitesnake, Cat Stevens, Joe Satriani, Massive Attack, Sisters of Mercy, Steve Hillage |
Favorite Books | Diary of a Provincial Lady E.M. Delafield, Sons & Lovers D.H. Lawrence, Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier, We Are at War, Private Battles and Our Hidden Lives Simon Garfield, Wartime Britain Juliet Gardiner, The Camomile Lawn Mary Wesley, Up The Garden Path Beverley Nichols, Astercote Penelope Lively, Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert, Someone At A Distance Dorothy Whipple, Samuel Pepys' diaries, Mayor of Casterbridge, Return of the Native Thomas Hardy, Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte, Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons, To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee, Down & Out in Paris & London, Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell, Persuation, Northanger Abbey Jane Austen, Lady Audley's Secret M.E. Braddon, I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith, anything by Nancy Mitford, biographies, WWII social history, cookbooks from the 30s, 40s & 50s ... |