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.

7 comments:

  1. I love Minerva knitting books for their styles and precise instructions. Thanks!

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  2. Wish a certain UK designer (cough, debbie bliss, cough) would learn to write instructions like these.

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  3. I downloaded a simple pattern from the Drops site two days ago and am still reading it over as it's unnecessarily complicated. I think they switched translators.
    Is it me, or is there a fad for unconventional construction techniques on Ravelry these days? I just want to knit, not construct a three dimensional art object. I think lock down has finally gotten to me. And I have a largish stash that I'd been planning to knit up before summer - or next Christmas at this rate.

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  4. Bunnykins - yes, people are making things way too complicated for no reason except they can. Go back to Elizabeth Zimmerman or Norah Gaugin's books for lovely items with great instructions.

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  5. Good advice. Sorry for the outburst of cranky.

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  6. I've never learned to knit, but I can "loom". My biggest problem is that I have a burst of energy, and then things sit. And sit. And sit. I know better than to even start anything larger than a doll dress.

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