Every Four Years

 

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Vintage Workbasket Magazine - November, 1946

Some very nice projects in this one, including a knitted rag rug, edging and baby socks, a crocheted table runner, and a quilted afghan.  Free download from the Antique Pattern Library.

National Library Lovers Month

 

My kind of holiday.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world.  We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did. ~ Shane Claiborne

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Vintage Upcycling - Slipper Socks from 1947

 

From the October, 1947 issue of Woman's Day - their monthly column "How To Be A Girl" offered projects as well as etiquette and dating advice. Here are three different styles to make from felt and old socks. 

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Happy President's Day

 

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. ~ Socrates

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Vintage Holidays - Happy Valentine's Day

 

image from the Graphics Fairy

Vintage Knitting - An Italian Cardigan from 1960

 

On the left, a classic and stylish raglan cardigan to match with skirts for a dressmaker look.  From Bernat Handicrafter, Mirsa of Italy, published in 1960.  

"The Marchesa di Gresy has become renowned as a designer and manufacturer of knitted fashions.  Her designs are sought by the great stores of Paris, Milan and Rome, as well as by America's finest stores, and are featured constantly in the leading fashion magazines.

Mirsa of Italy designs hand-knit fashions only for Bernat." (their italics).

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History Repeats Itself

 

Greg Abbott Laments That Texas Can't Shoot Migrants.

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

All cats are made of knives. ~ anonymous Internet comment

Snips and Snails And Puppy-dog Tails

 Two of Baldur's students this week chose books about creepy-crawlies (the other was worse).

Both boys.  Go figure.

Vintage Tatting - Insertion from 1895

 

You'll have to enlarge this to read it - but from Butterick's Tatting and Netting, 1895, a pretty "insertion # 15" that would make a dandy bookmark.

Free download from the Internet Archive.

Obscure Holidays - Happy Kraut & Frankfurter Day

 

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

I shall walk in the sun alone

Whose golden light you loved:

I shall sleep alone

And, stirring, touch an empty place:

I shall write uninterrupted

(Would that your gentle paw could stay my moving pen just once again!).

I shall see beauty

But none to match your living grace:

I shall hear music

But not so sweet as the droning song

With which you loved me.

I shall fill my days

But I shall not, cannot forget:

Sleep soft, dear friend,

For while I live you shall not die. ~ Michael Joseph

 

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CHILDREN SHOULD BE SEEN AND NOT HEARD

 

This being National Book Week, yesterday I was invited to bring the Little Man to a local grade school to help me read to the kindergarteners.  I got myself all spiffied up in nice slacks, a cashmere cardi, one of the scarves I bought in France.

I may say without fear or favor that kids love to listen to me read; I do different voices and even accents (My Green Eggs and Ham is legendary - Sam I Am sounds like Shelby Foote). So after I finished the book about the penguin who goes to the moon on a cola fizz-fired rocket, one child asked if I could do "scary voices."

Me:  I'm not very good at scary voices - I don't have a deep voice like a man.  Men do better at scary voices.

Startled cry from some demonspawn in the back row:  Wait, you're not a man?

(I thought the teacher was going to sink into the floor).