These realistic patterns for poppies appeared in the Boston Sunday Post in 1911. The designer signed the illustration with the initials GBW.
Month: July 2016
Tops From the Trunk — Antique Nine-Patch Variation
This is one of two tops that I recently purchased from a seller who bought them at an estate sale (the other top was featured in an earlier post). She thought they were made by the same person, and I suspect that’s true. The hand piecing is similar, and several prints are repeated in both quilts. Like…
McCall’s Monday — Kitchen Revue, Six Designs for Dish Towels
Turn dish drying into a rollicking show with glassware, dishes, pots and pans staging a gay outline-stitch revue on your dish towels. Here are saucy dancing girls (plates and teacups), an urbane vaudevillian with high hat and cane (the pot), a boy and girl dance team (glasses), the scatter-brained comic pair (skillets), and the sure-fire…
Free Pattern Friday — More Mother Goose in Filet Crochet
From the Winnipeg Tribune, 1923 Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty sitting on the wall can be adapted to a variety of uses in making gifts for the little ones. This motif can be developed in either filet crochet or cross stitch. Little Bo Peep The little Mother Goose shepherdess, whose picture in filet crochet appears here,…
McCall’s Monday — Wrap-Around Apron with Rick-Rack Trim
These politically incorrect “squaw dresses” were a fad in the 50s, and my mother made elaborate versions for me and two of my sisters. This involved sewing yards of rick-rack on blouses and 3-tired skirts made with vibrantly colored wrinkly cottons marketed, of course, as “squaw cloth.” When I was growing up in Oklahoma, and…
Free Pattern Friday — Mother Goose in Filet Crochet
From the Louisville Courier-Journal, 1925 Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary For the children’s room, here is an interesting filet pattern adapted from the old reliable Mother Goose. If you are very ambitious, you might consider making a crocheted spread of Mother Goose medallions, but for most people, one medallion in the center of a spread involves…
McCall’s Monday — Fruit Motifs for Gay Kitchen
Embroidery Designs for Towel Ends or Pillowcases
McCall’s Monday — Raggedy Ann Embroidery Transfers
McCall’s Kaumagraph Pattern 1287, DOW designs featuring Raggedy Ann.
Free Pattern Friday — Initials for Embroidery
These unusual initial designs were published in the Reading Eagle in 1911. I think they look like something out of a Dr. Seuss book. Click images to enlarge.
Liberated Basket Medallion Quilt – Childhood Border
In an earlier post, I explained why this border was inspired by my childhood . . . “I grew up in the 1950s in a small town in Oklahoma. We lived in an old neighborhood of modest homes, where there were no fences and children were free to play wherever they wanted (with a few…