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Quote Of The Day

photo from the Miami Herald

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. ~ Bertrand Russell.

Sewing - A Slip-On Apron from 1921

From A Complete Course in Dressmaking by Isabel de Nyse Conover, Lesson II - a volume that goes into lyrical raptures over aprons and housedresses.  The directions for drafting the pattern and sewing this slipover apron, bias-bound, start on p 32 and go on in unnecessarily fulsome detail for another dozen pages, but for anyone who has sewn before, it's a pretty easy project.  The pdf  also contains instructions for a half-apron and a kimono-sleeved housedress, and can be downloaded from the Antique Pattern Library, as can the rest of the course (scroll down). Lingerie is in Lesson III.

Just a Reminder

Since we are almost halfway through hurricane season.

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Quote Of The Day

Beware of how you take away hope from another human being. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Usual Suspects

Three freshly-cooked hamburgers have disappeared off the kitchen counter, and nobody's talking.

Knitting Humor

The Antique Pattern Library has posted a Minerva pattern book from the late 30's with cartoons in it.

(And a really lovely bedspread pattern).

EDITED TO ADD:  Happy Bastille Day a nos gentilles lectrices francaises.

Vintage Images - Fruit/Vegetable Crate Labels

copyright-free, from Dover

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Quote Of The Day

How about we treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants to get an abortion - mandatory 48-hour waiting period, parental permission, a note from his doctor proving he understands what he's about to do, a video he has to watch about the effects of gun violence...Let's close down all but one gun shop in every state and make him travel hundreds of miles, take time off work, and stay overnight in a strange town to get a gun.  Make him walk through a gauntlet of people holding photos of loved ones who were shot to death, people who call him a murderer and beg him not to buy a gun. ~ Gloria Steinem.

Grrrsday

I don't know about your parts of the world, but it has been blistering here for over a week.  If we don't get some rain soon...

Happy World Chocolate Day!

Caturday!

Quote Of The Day

I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse. ~ Ulysses S. Grant

Grrrsday