I seem to have fallen a couple of days behind ever since I got back from Dorian. Here's an attempt to catch up.
Nothing on this month's cover is actually in the booklet - there is an offer for a baffling racial mix of tea-towel transfers (Scots, French, Danish, Portuguese and the usual cringe-inducing "Dinah and Rastus"), instructions on how to make a garden decoration, a Star Flower quilt, crocheted lace gloves, a pixy cap to either knit or crochet, and two crocheted handbags.
There are also the directions for the "clever coat" promised in May but that was a snare and a delusion - you cut out the coat from muslin or feed sacks, using any coat pattern of the "most becoming length" and then candlewick it. The instructions are strictly for the candlewicking process but Aunt Martha's editors promise the end result will look just like the new rage in Hollywood.
The PDF to download (free) is from the Antique Pattern Library.
Any new tatting patterns? My aunt brought home an Irish hankie (more like a napkin in size) and wants a tatted edge by Christmas. How was your trip?
ReplyDeleteTatting doesn't start to show up regularly until late in the 40's for some reason. After that there's at least one tatting pattern in each issue. HOWEVER: If you want some nice edging patterns, the APL can help you with that.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/pub/PDF/PriscillaTat3.pdf
http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/pub/PDF/DeWittPriscillaTat1.pdf
https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/pub/PDF/OrrTatting13.pdf
https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/pub/PDF/LiebertShiffchen2.pdf
The last one is in German but if you don't spreche the Deutsch, and find an edging you like send it to me and I'll translate it for you.
Trip was uneventful other than having to get up at 0400 for a flight that got snowed out in Chicago anyway.
Glad you're home safe and dry. Also glad not to have been born in the 1930s when womanly amusement was working on some endless number of quilt or bedspread blocks (gah.) That said, I'm a total sucker for garden lady (not Sunbonnet Sue) patterns, esp if there's a butterfly or cute dog in the picture.
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