Vintage Sewing - A Pair of Bunny Slippers Pour Les Petits

 

From Benes-Addicts' site, a pair of slippers for a small child.  Directions are in French and the diagrams are in metric but  pretty straightforward.                                                                    

Vintage Holidays - Easter

 

From the Graphics Fairy's wonderful online collection of vintage ephemera.

Caturday!

 

Grrrsday

 

Toymaking - A Child's Tractor from 1923

 

Only a day late - from the January, 1923 issue of Popular Mechanics, a toy tractor to make out of tin cans and scrap wood, with a rubber-band powered motor that will actually run "15 or 20 feet" over a smooth surface. Two pages of instructions can be downloaded from my Flickr account.

Happy Daffodil Day!

 

copyright-free image from the Graphics Fairy

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

from Bletchley Park: Britain's Wartime Intelligence Factory

Women who had spent years in secretarial pools made great decoders: when they heard "This section is gibberish because the radio signal faded; can you figure out the rest from context?" they said, "For ten years I took dictation for a mumbler in Accounts Receivable; I can figure out anything from context." ~ Kate Quinn

The Online Bookshelf

 

From Project Gutenberg, one of Palmer Cox's "Brownie" books.

Something For St Patrick's Day

 

One of the Graphic Fairy's free vintage images.

Sewing - A Jersey Hood for January, 1947

 

From Woman's Day, January 1947, in the "Found Money" monthly column, a zipped jersey hood to keep the chills off.  Left-click to enlarge.

Damn you, Punxsutawny Phil

 

The north half of town is without power.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Vintage robin and rose from the Graphics Fairy.

It is the first mild day of March:

Each minute sweeter than before

The redbreast sings from the tall larch

That stands beside our door. ~ William Wordsworth

Grrrsday

 

Victorian Pastimes - The Girl's Own Toymaker, 1860

 

A collection of suitably gentle* and domestic crafts for little girls, including doll's clothes, doll's furniture, and knicknacks (I draw your attention particularly to the flycatcher on page 19).  From archive.org, a free download.

*then again, it does exercise one's skill with scissors.

Vintage Holidays - St Patrick's Day

 

A lovely bit of Edwardian imagery from the Graphics Fairy.

Caturday

 

Quote Of The Day

 

When women go wrong, men go right after them. ~ Mae West

Southern Cooking

Slap yo mamma, that's good.

 

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Knitting - The Minerva Stylebook #71, 1946

 

From 1946, a plethora of beautiful styles with a lingering trace of wartime trimness, and maybe just a hint of the New Look to come. Free download at the Antique Pattern Library.

Happy National Fruit Compote Day

 

image from The Graphics Fairy