I'm sure you're all very jealous that I get to knit at work. I've been working on the Knitty Baseball sweater for my husband as a Christmas gift since July, and I am just working my way up the second sleeve. It's been so dead that it's taken only three days to get about 70 rows done!

Anyway, for diversion today I picked up a copy of the holiday issue of Vogue Knitting. The time-consuming looking patterns are delightful to browse, even though I'm not quite ready for Fair Isle colour work.

However, an item in the front section caught my eye as well: a paragraph on the online exhibition of knitted artifacts from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. When I went looking for the link, I found that the V and A has a whole page of links on all things knitting, including a gallery of 1940s-era knitting patterns. The exhibition includes a knitted sock from Ancient Egypt and items knitted from silk and gilt into fine patterns from Medieval Spain. Go, enjoy, knit.