Thursday, February 29, 2024

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

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.

Monday, February 26, 2024

Saturday, February 24, 2024

Friday, February 23, 2024

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

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

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. 

Left-click to enlarge.

Monday, February 19, 2024

Saturday, February 17, 2024

Friday, February 16, 2024

Quote Of The Day

 


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

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

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).


Left-click to enlarge.


Saturday, February 10, 2024

Friday, February 9, 2024

Quote of the Day

 


All cats are made of knives. ~ anonymous Internet comment

Thursday, February 8, 2024

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.

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

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.

Saturday, February 3, 2024

Friday, February 2, 2024

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

 

Thursday, February 1, 2024

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).