Take a Trip Down Memory Lane with Free Knitting Patterns

Vintage knitting patterns

I can still see it in my mind's eye. A lovely, lacy, knit shawl in a delicate lilac color resides in my memory. A soft knit with the faint aroma of my grandmother's favorite perfume. This shawl belonged to my grandmother and remembering it takes me back in time and floods me with warm memories of summer times spent on a farm.

Do you have fond memories of a special sweater or afghan your grandmother made? Do you love old-fashioned or vintage items handcrafted with love? Many knitters do and that is exactly why many begin knitting. Knitting evokes memories. Thoughts fill your head of simpler times or times past sitting with a beloved grandmother, mother or aunt who taught you to knit.

Why not capture more of these memories? Maybe you couldn't find that favorite item when your loved one passed away. Maybe you searched for patterns to recreate the item and can't. I understand.

Growing up in a knitting family, I seem to have many special memories of knitted items -- all special to me but seemingly lost forever. That is, until the invention of modern technology called the Internet and free vintage knitting patterns along with it.

Who would have ever thought that something so cold and impersonal could help restore and recreate those special memories? That is exactly what you can do by searching for vintage knitting patterns. Find free patterns for knitting. These sites have dedicated themselves to saving vintage patterns, rewriting the instructions when needed and making them available to knitters everywhere.

Have fun searching the Internet and find free knitting patterns guaranteed to take you back in time.