Saturday, November 23, 2024

Friday, November 22, 2024

Quote Of The Day

 


Devouring Time, blunt thou thy lion's paws. ~ William Shakespeare

Thursday, November 21, 2024

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Vintage Knitting - A Doll's Ensemble from 1964

 

A gift idea as we sneak up on Christmas; a two-piece ensemble designed for 11.5" fashion dolls, knitted in fingering yarn.  From the June, 1964 Workbasket magazine. Two pages of instructions, and available as a free download from the Internet Archive.

Saturday, November 16, 2024

Friday, November 15, 2024

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Other Crafts: Cornhusk Novelties from 1942

 


A selection of novelty items to make from cornshucks - slippers, baskets, rugs, fans - as explained in the November, 1942 Workbasket magazine.  The  issue can be downloaded from the Antique Pattern Library

Monday, November 11, 2024

Saturday, November 9, 2024

Friday, November 8, 2024

Quote Of The Day

 

photo by Justin Fogerty

Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed.
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for. ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Monday, November 4, 2024

As Does Everyone's

 

I am an election judge again this year. There will be no posting until Wednesday.

Saturday, November 2, 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024

Quote of the Day

 

Breakfast Piece (Herbert Badham, 1936)

We each hold up the past like it's a gift, and it is. ~ Crystal Wilkinson