Saturday, August 9, 2025

Caturday!

 


Friday, August 8, 2025

Quote Of The Day

 


Thursday, August 7, 2025

Grrrsday

 


Wednesday, August 6, 2025

While We're On the Subject of Vacances

 


Does anyone know of any good yarn shops in Athens?

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Vintage Crochet - A Thread Motif from 1950

 


From the September, 1950 issue of Workbasket magazine, a delicate motif in thread crochet for a tablecloth or dresser scarf. This is from my own collection, and as of this date, not yet available at the Antique Pattern Library.




Left-click to enlarge.

Monday, August 4, 2025

Semper Paratus

 

Happy birthday to the branch nobody remembers until some damn fool rents a powerboat and sinks it.

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Summer In The City

 


 


Why I am taking vacation when technically I am always on vacation?  Oldest sister is arriving today and we'll be hitting the fleshpots of Chicago* until Saturday.

(*or at least the Art Institute and the Palmer House).

Monday, July 28, 2025

Welcome to Summer in the Midwest


 We will be under a "heat dome" until Thursday.

Saturday, July 26, 2025

Caturday!

 


Friday, July 25, 2025

Quote Of The Day

 


I ate healthy, I didn't drink or smoke...and then my reward was to watch everyone around me die.  So go ahead, get the French fries instead of the carrots. ~ Anonymous hospice resident

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Grrrsday

 


Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Children's Crafts - A PaperDoll from 1925

 


"Hildegarde Lives in Holland," a paper doll from Good Housekeeping magazine, January 1925.  The entire year's issues as a bound copy to download can be found at archive.org.

Monday, July 21, 2025

Saturday, July 19, 2025

Caturday!

 


Friday, July 18, 2025

Thursday, July 17, 2025

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Vintage Knitting - A Child's Sweater from 1952

 


A child's blazer-style sweater with contrasting trim, from Modern Knitting, Summer 1952. Left-click to enlarge.

Friday, July 11, 2025

Quote of the Day

 


When the heat like a mist veil floats,
And poppies flame in the rye,
And the silver note in the streamlet's throat
Has softened almost to a sigh.  It is July. ~ Susan Hartley Swett

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Grrrsday

 


Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Vintage Tatting - A Traycloth motif from 1916




If you are getting started on your Christmas tatting already, the center motif from this tray cloth (first three rows) would, stiffly starched, make a classic snowflake (even if it does have eight points instead of six).  It's from a 1916 Bucilla tatting and crochet manual, with the instructions on p43.

(And if you do filet crochet, there are a variety of fantastic "La Belle et La Bete" beasts on pages 9-12.