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

 

Grrrsday

 

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.