Summer In The City

 

 

Why I am taking vacation when technically I am always on vacation?  Oldest sister is arriving today and we'll be hitting the fleshpots of Chicago* until Saturday.

(*or at least the Art Institute and the Palmer House).

Welcome to Summer in the Midwest

 We will be under a "heat dome" until Thursday.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

I ate healthy, I didn't drink or smoke...and then my reward was to watch everyone around me die.  So go ahead, get the French fries instead of the carrots. ~ Anonymous hospice resident

Grrrsday

 

Children's Crafts - A PaperDoll from 1925

 

"Hildegarde Lives in Holland," a paper doll from Good Housekeeping magazine, January 1925.  The entire year's issues as a bound copy to download can be found at archive.org.

Obscure Holidays - National Junk Food Day

 

image from FB

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Knitting - A Child's Sweater from 1952

 

A child's blazer-style sweater with contrasting trim, from Modern Knitting, Summer 1952. Left-click to enlarge.

Quote of the Day

 

image from the Graphics Fairy

When the heat like a mist veil floats,
And poppies flame in the rye,
And the silver note in the streamlet's throat
Has softened almost to a sigh.  It is July. ~ Susan Hartley Swett

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Tatting - A Traycloth motif from 1916

If you are getting started on your Christmas tatting already, the center motif from this tray cloth (first three rows) would, stiffly starched, make a classic snowflake (even if it does have eight points instead of six).  It's from a 1916 Bucilla tatting and crochet manual, with the instructions on p43.

(And if you do filet crochet, there are a variety of fantastic "La Belle et La Bete" beasts on pages 9-12.

Obscure Holidays - Happy National Koi Day

 

image from Pinterest

Give a cat a fish and you feed him for a day.  Teach a cat to fish and he'll empty the neighbor's koi pond. ~ old Japanese saying.

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

A Republic - if you can keep it. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Grrrsday

 

We Still Love You, Neighbors to the North, In Spite of our Stupid President

 

Vintage Crochet - Daisy Lace from 1948

 From the January, 1948 issue of Workbasket magazine, a rather tricky-looking edging to crochet. Left-click to enlarge.