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Lace, Lace, and More Lace, & a Patreon Update

Five narrow, knitted edgings.

First a little housekeeping: Regular visitors may have noticed I have removed mention of my fledgeling Patreon from the site. This is because I very quickly came to the realisation that I cannot make tutorials and downloads on a strict schedule any more. This means the ads on the website will stay (unless I win the lottery, ahem).

BUT!

This is good news for everyone, previous Patreon members included. Firstly, I refunded everyone with a paid membership. This is because I’m still going to supply all of the original tutorials and patterns I was going to use to reward Patreon members, I’m just going to post them here with ads. I’ve also updated my CSS file so all of the ads disapppear when you print a page again, which means all you have to do to save any pattern or tutorial as a nice clean pdf is hit print and choose to save as a pdf, or you can print them on paper.

So now all that’s out of the way, I hope you enjoy the first set of 19th century lace edging patterns I released. The Baby Edging Collection. They are:

Baby Edge

Baby Edging from Weldon’s Practical Knitter

Edging for a Baby’s Body

Baby Lace (1) from 5,000 Gems for the Household and

Baby Lace (2) from Needlecraft Knitted Edgings.

I will also be writing a series of tutorials for making Teneriffe Lace, and Plush Template Embroidery that will be added to over the years to become more than I could have ever published in book form. I will upload the first few tutorials over the coming weeks.

I hope you enjoy these techniques and patterns as much as I do.

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We’re Back for Another 30 Years, and with a Patreon!

April 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of Knitting-and.com, and almost 25 years since I bought the domain name so I thought it was time to do a bit of tidying up.

Among other things, I’ve done the following to tidy up the website:

I hope you find everything much easier to find, and have a lot more fun looking around!

We’ve changed a lot over the years, and I hope we have many more to come.

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2012 menus. So round.

Here’s to the next 30 years!

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Contact Form Problems

I realised a couple of days ago that my contact form wasn’t working on mobile, even though it was working fine on desktop.

It should be fixed now but please let me know if you have any problems with it using any of my social media links in the footer.

Printing PDF Downloads and an Apology

Sorry.

A kind visitor to Knitting-and.com let me know recently that I had accidentally created many of my pdf files without letting anyone print them without a password.

My sincere apologies to everyone this has affected (I’m mortified that I made such a simple mistake).

I have fixed them now, so if you find yourself with a file from Knitting-and.com that you would like to print, and it’s asking for a password, please download it again and you should be able to print it. (If you can’t, let me know and I’ll double check). Note: This will only affect files downloaded after October 6th, 2018.

Regular visitors may have also noticed that the website has been offline a few times over the past week. This was caused by a failure on the new server, which I have been assured is now fixed. I hope this hasn’t caused too much inconvenience.

Sarah

Maintenance Update & a Ravelry Plea

I’m pretty sure I’ve fixed all of the missing patterns from the wiki. They were all there, just with the wrong file names/links.

Also, I’ve noticed that a lot of visitors are posting to Ravelry when they find an error in my transcriptions. If you could also let me know here on the website I’d really appreciate it. I fix any errors that I find out about. Unfortunately, because I’m not the designer of the vintage patterns I post, I don’t get an automatic notification on Ravelry of people’s comments and it takes a REALLY long time to check over 1000 patterns. Especially when a lot of them don’t have Knitting-and.com as the source other than in the link to the transcribed/updated versions.

Thanks, and please let me know if you find any more missing patterns!

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