Vintage knitting patterns, rewritten for you
Same stories, new stitches
A collection of beautiful vintage designs, from 1940s cardigans to 1980s cable sweaters, each one rewritten stitch by stitch for your size and your own gauge. Knit the original look in today's yarn, made to fit you.
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Pick a patternEach design is rebuilt from its original instructions, so it still looks the way it did then.
Tell us your size and gaugeYour size (US 4 to 24, UK 8 to 28), your yarn, and its gauge: straight from the yarn label, or from a swatch if you want a perfect fit.
Start knittingYour complete pattern is ready straight away, to read on screen, print or save. £5.95. Stuck on a row? Email us and a knitter will help.
Free guides and tools
- Old knitting needle sizes: UK, US and metric conversion chartConvert old UK knitting needle sizes (000 to 14 and finer) to mm and US sizes, tell UK from US numbering on vintage patterns, and see where there's no match.
- What is 3-ply yarn? Modern equivalents for vintage 2, 3 and 4-plyWhat vintage 2-ply, 3-ply and 4-ply mean today, how Australian 5, 8 and 10 ply compare, typical tensions, and how to pick a modern yarn that will actually fit.
- How to measure knitting tension (gauge) accuratelyMeasure knitting tension (gauge) properly: swatch size, blocking, counting stitches and rows, half stitches, tricky yarns and what to do if you're off.
- Vintage knitting abbreviations and old terms: a decoderDecode vintage knitting abbreviations and old terms: w.fwd, w.r.n., m.1, k.b., p.s.s.o., Victorian "seam" and "narrow", plus UK and US equivalents.
- Which of our patterns suit my yarn?Type in your gauge and see every pattern we can write for it.