Tuesday, March 30, 2021

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.                                                                    

Monday, March 29, 2021

Vintage Holidays - Easter

 


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

Saturday, March 27, 2021

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

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.

Monday, March 22, 2021

Saturday, March 20, 2021

Friday, March 19, 2021

Quote Of The Day

 

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

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

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.

Monday, March 15, 2021

Damn you, Punxsutawny Phil

 


The north half of town is without power.

Saturday, March 13, 2021

Friday, March 12, 2021

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

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

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.

Monday, March 8, 2021

Saturday, March 6, 2021

Friday, March 5, 2021

Quote Of The Day

 


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

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

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.