I love the cover of this book so much that I spent most of a day cleaning up the scanned image. My copy has some tears and stains, but the worst was the brown foxing that covered the entire page. It can be tedious work, but it’s also sort of mesmerizing. While I was working on the image, I was watching a wonderful documentary, Tim’s Vermeer, where Tim painstakingly reproduces a Vermeer painting, which seemed sort of appropriate, although . . . Tim’s Vermeer – 4 years, Martha’s McCall’s Cover – 1 day. When my repair was done, I was so pleased to have restored this wonderful illustration — okay, not a Vermeer, but still pretty adorable.
There are two of these publications in my collection, and both are from 1928 — one is the Spring issue and one is Fall. Although only a few of the interior pages are colored, the Art Deco illustrations are all adorable. I’m always looking for the original patterns contained in these catalogs, but they are rare and difficult to find.
Smock-Top Pattern No. 1640 Has Points and Rambler-Roses
New Smock-Tops For Small and Bigger Girls
The Embroidery Way Smartens These Play Frocks
I too love the magazine cover. My mother used to do a bit of smocking. She showed me how and I made my daughter a baby dress with some on the bodice.
What a beautiful cover. I always said I would learn to do smocking when I had a baby girl. My baby girl is now 27 years old and I still don’t know how! ;))
I love the little dresses in this magazine. My mom use to make little smocked dresses for the grandkids, but I never learned how. I always wanted to, but now she has passed away and not around to teach me. There is so much that she knew that I wished I had learned from her.
It looks wonderful! I have a lot of trouble dealing with discolored page correction.
That cover is wonderful!
I made some white on cream with tiny pink roses smocking for my daughters when they were young. My oldest looked at it and said “I don’t like it. There’s no color” Oh my!
I have two pages I pulled from a McCall Needlework and Decorative Arts magazine some time ago. It has a photo of a beautiful quilt with fan design, green border. Designed by Andrea Shedletsky. Listed on pages 90 and 91 Nostalgia section. I don’t have the pages from the How To Index on how to get the pattern or directions or the date of the magazine. Can you help me find the pattern?
Thanks for any help on this.
Linda
I love all that you do.
But I have a question.
I have an old scan of 2 photos of myself and my husband. It is the only one of two left from our younger days. It was found by my sister when she was going thru mom’s things when we lost her. They are faded and a little blurry, and one is the only photo of us with our daughter the day we brought her home from the hospital. How can I clean them up? Please let me know. I would love to be able to send good copies to our daughter,