Vintage Crochet - a Glass Jacket from 1961

 

A useful summer project from Workbasket magazine, June 1961.  Knit Cro Sheen is still available at Michael's, and this may save your porch furniture from those unpleasant rings that glasses of iced tea can make. The rest of the magazine is available at the Internet Archive.

Lore of the Corps - The Battle of Bladensburg

On this day in 1814, 103 Marines and "flotillamen" from the Washington Navy Yard held off a numerically superior British force long enough to help save the Declaration of Independence.

"It was an unmitigated military disaster, save for a small band of US Marines whose desperate defense of the nation's capital allowed for the Declaration of Independence - and the President - to be whisked away to safety."  Claire Barret, Military Times.

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

High noon in August! over all the land
The very air is palpitant withheat;
While stretching far, the fields of ripening wheat
Unrippled lie as plains of yellow sand. ~ Henry Sylvester Cornwell

Grrrsday

 

Knitting - A Leaf Edging From 1952

 From Workbasket magazine, February 19152, an attractive and not too complicated edging.  This would have looked much better after blocking, IMHO. Left click to enlarge.

Holidays We Don't Celebrate Nearly Enough - Happy National Thrift Shop Day

 

Spare & Share Shoppe, Gridley, Illinois

Also, Brian's least favorite holiday.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Morning Wake Up by Pascal Campion

Sometimes I think that dogs must have been created especially in order to improve our morale and to give us a good opinion of ourselves when we are most in need of encouragement.

(Google attributes this quote variously to Antoine St-Exupery, James Herriot, and Sigmund Freud.  I can no longer locate the book where I actually found it).

No Power But We Still Have Internet

 

Grrrsday

 

Other Crafts - A Leather Shopping Bag from 1950

 

A shopping bag to make from leather scraps (with very little tweaking, you could turn this into a clutch or a wallet - just line it so small items don't fall out).  From Crafts for Everyone, by Louis V. Newkirk, 1950.  This can be read for free online at the Hathi Trust site, but you will need a library or school account to download it.

Chicago, Chicago, That Toddlin' Town

 

Off to stuff myself with culture for four days - Cendrillon and Carmen at the Chicago Summer Opera series, and then the Willem de Kooning exhibit at the art institute.

Whether this trip will include visits to two of my favorite Loop restaurants (Bereket and the Dearborn) remains to be seen.

Knitting - A Scrap Yarn Rug from 1950

 

From Workbasket magazine, September of 1950, and is another iteration on the theme of strip-knitted rugs.  This issue is my own, and is not yet up at the Antique Pattern Library site.

Left click to enlarge.

 

Annus Mirabilis

 

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

A fence lasts three years, a dog lasts three fences, a horse lasts three dogs; and a man lasts three horses.  ~  German proverb.

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Sewing - A Handbag to Match Your Suit from 1943

 From Woman and Home, February, 1943.  Another way to "make do" on the UK home front. Left-click to enlarge.

Vintage Advertising - Grape Nuts Cereal

 

Maybe we should send a carload to Congress.  From Blue Book Magazine, April 1918.