Susan Crawford

I have been a knitwear/fashion designer and author for many years as well as teaching knitting and crochet and lecturing in fashion and fashion history, which is my particular interest. I gain much of my inspiration by looking back and interpreting these ideas for today.

I am the co-author of A Stitch in Time, Vintage Knitting & Crochet Patterns, 1920-1949 and my designs and articles have been featured in The Knitter, Knitting, Yarn Forward, knitonthenet, Knitty and Selvedge, sometimes under my ‘real’ name of Susan Crawford or alternatively under my design name of Just Call me Ruby.

I am currently working on a number of projects including ‘Vintage Gifts to Knit’ a collection of 16 patterns inspired by the early 20th century. The entire book has a great retro feel, the second volume of ‘A Stitch in Time’, which will look at fashions up to 1959 and ‘Vintage Shetland’ a very exciting project, investigating hand knitted garments in the Shetland Museum Archive re-interpreting and creating patterns from them.

You can find about all these things and more at www.susancrawfordvintage.com and my books and patterns can be purchased here or from my ravelry pattern store.