Cro-Knitting is a pattern booklet from the Bernhard Ulmann Company introducing a hybrid needlecraft combining elements of crochet and knitting. It offers designs for garments and accessories with instructions, materials, and gauge for the home needleworker.
Issued to promote the firm’s yarns, the booklet captures a particular fashion in handcraft and the styles of its era. Its patterns document the inventive variety of mid-century needlework. A handy vintage pattern collection, it is offered here as a free EPUB download. Browsing its pages today offers a small glimpse of the inventive handcraft fashions that home needleworkers once made for themselves.