Sheep to Sock Schedule. Join Heritage NL and our friends at the Sheep Producers of NL for our third annual Sheep to Sock Fibre Festival at ...

About the Women’s Patriotic Association The Women’s Patriotic Association (WPA) was made up of over 15,000 women across Newfoundland and...

On Saturday March 5th, despite the weather, we had around 45 lovely knitters join Christine LeGrow and Shirley Scott for an afternoo...

As part of the Grey Sock Project, the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador and the City of St. John's are presenting K...

Last week, the darning workshop took place at the A.C. Hunter Children's Library at the Arts and Culture Centre! We had twenty-two...

In the spirit of darning, here are two darning tools sent to us from Karlie King and Eileen Murphy! Karlie King's darning mushroom ...

Today's photo is of the lovely buttons we ordered for the Grey Sock Project! Next week, February 16th, is the traditional darning wor...

Family and Friends Learn to Knit  participants! I went to the Quidi Vidi Village Plantation last week to check out the Family and Friend...

Today's Folklore Photo comes to us from Lloyd Kane! These darning tools are family heirlooms from his wife, Linda's, grandmother’...

Do you have holes in your socks that you'd like to fix but don't know where to start? Come to our free traditional darning worksh...

Source: Artefacts Canada Nice knit socks were and still are required for a warm, dry foot! There is nothing worse than a big hole that ...

As promised, here is a bibliography with original documents such as  Evening Telegram  articles, the WPA's published magazine called The...

"Thursday's Working Bee in the Drawing Room" 1915 Happy Tuesday to all! As you may be aware, I have been researching the...

On August 31, 1914, Lady Margaret Davidson, the governor's wife, called a public meeting in St. John's. The 700 women who att...

Pairs of knitted socks, ca. 1915 Source: Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador  http://goo.gl/tH95Wj Hello everyone! My name is Stepha...