Vintage Holidays - Thanksgiving

 

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Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

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

Grrrsday

 

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.

Happy American Indian Heritage Month

 

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

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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. 

Lest We Forget

 

Saturday!

 

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

11/6/24

 

As Does Everyone's

 

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

Caturday!

 

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

"Step Ever So Light, On Hallowe'en Night..."

 

Children's Crafts - Hallowe'en Disguises from 1953

 

Sneaky disguises to cut out and wear, from the McCall's Golden Book, 1953 edition.  This, alas, is not one of the ones you can download for free from the Internet Archive, but you can check it out to read online it in one-hour increments.

Vintage Holidays - Hallowe'en

 

copyright-free image from the Graphics Fairy.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready
The dried grass of the harvest time loads the slow-drawn wagon,
The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,
The armfuls are packed to the sagging mow. ~ Walt Whitman

Grrrsday

 

Bearing Bunnies, by Maggie Vandewalle

Vintage Crochet - Potholders from 1949

Green and white potholders (or "panholders") from the August, 1949 issue of Workbasket magazine.  Made in a t-shirt yarn, these would make nice hotpads, as well.  A copy of this issue can be downloaded from the Antique Pattern Library.

Happy Wolf Awareness Week, October 20-26

 

Caturday!

 

I warned Brian about leaving that bag of apples on the counter.

Grrrsday

 

Children's Crafts: A Dog Bookmark from 1964

 

From the February, 1964 issue of Workbasket magazine, a bookmark to cut out of felt.  I would use ribbon for the tail.

This was trimmed out of a 8x5.5 inch magazine, so you will need to enlarge it a bit.

This issue of Workbasket can be found on the Internet Archive, which unfortunately is currently suffering from a prolonged and vicious DOS attack.  I'll post the link when things are back to normal.

Happy National Book Month.

 

Best Laid Plans

 

We decided that Blitzen would be strictly an indoor cat. You can see how well that's working out.

Quote Of The Day

photo by Armand Oliveros

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart. ~ Basil Rathbone.

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Tatting - and Edging from Workbasket, 1983

A trickly looking, intricate edging from the old Workbasket magazine, September of 1983.

Vintage Advertising - Congoleum Flooring

Advertisement for Congoleum, McCall's, March 1937.  I swear this was the pattern about four layers down when we were refinishing the floors in our kitchen.

And in other news, posting may be sketchy for a while - since I am not currently able to deploy with the Red Cross, I'm going to be working two days and one evening each week at the chapter office until November, replacing a woman who is currently out supporting reunification services (a job I would not take in a million years.  Too hard on the heart).

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

You can't fix stupid, but you can sell it a red hat. ~ Anonymous 

Grrrsday

 

Woodcrafting - Puppy Bookends from 1954

 Intended as a project for kids, not adults, this comes from Things for Boys and Girls to Make, 1954, by William Hennessey.

Another downloadable treasure from the Internet Archive.

It's National Fall Foliage Week!

 

image from the Graphics Fairy

Go out and look at a tree.

Terre de Nos Aïeux

 

Heading north of the border for nine days of leaf-peeping and poutine. EDITED TO ADD: it was lovely, but my French is not nearly as good as I would like it to be.

Vintage Crochet - A Daisy Edging from 1960

 

"Daisy Lace," a pretty edging from Workbasket magazine, January 1960.  Also the Hedenkamp people would like you to start selling their greeting cards.

Just A Reminder

 

image from USA Today

September remains National Emergency Preparedness Month.

Caturday!

 

"It Just Exploded"

SPRINGFIELD, OH:  The woman behind an early FB post spreading a harmful and baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating local pets that helped thrust a small Ohio city into the national spotlight says she had no firsthand knowledge of any such incident and is now filled with regret and fear as a result of the ensuing fallout. 

Quote of the Day

 

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Knitting - A Raglan Cardigan from 1958

 With fall fast approaching (I put another blanket on the bed last night), it's time to start thinking sweaters.  This cardigan and two dozen more classic styles can be knitted up from instructions found in Bernat Handicrafter #65, a free download from the Antique Pattern Library.

It's Really A Thing

 

So, today is National When Pigs Fly Day.

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

Mothers, teach your daughters to keep au courant with the leading vital issues of the day.  If a taste for them has been crushed out by centuries of serfdom instill into them the fact that they will help their beloved America by their intelligent vote to suppress evil and blot out corrupt politics.  ~ Eugenie de Rivera (1905).

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