Now that the Independence Day celebration is over, I’m getting back to the antique Royal Society Transfer book. Here are some lovely baskets from one page. One of the baskets was cut out and that always drives me crazy wondering what fabulous transfer I am missing.
These are more difficult to find than the other major holidays, but I managed to locate a few in my collection. There are some additional transfers in last year’s post.
This booklet was in the box of old transfers and lace I found at a thrift shop in Utah during our road trip last year. According to sewingpalette.com, Royal Society sold thread, yarns, kits and needlework pattern books from 1915 through the 1920s. “In the early 1920s the company produced a series of hot iron…
Here’s the last of these cute kitchen transfers (click here for the other images from this group). Unfortunately, my cat attacked the tissue paper, and damaged a bowl and a measuring cup. Maybe I can reconstruct them in Photoshop.
These designs are from a sheet of Walker’s blue numo hot iron transfers — the ones on tissue paper with blue raised dots that are one use only. The serial number for this sheet is 1598, and it came in an assortment with 3 other sheets. Sometimes these numo transfers don’t look too great, even…
I’ve been writing this blog for 3 1/2 years, and I’ve decided it’s time to make a change. Starting today, I’m going to try out the following schedule (subject to change at the author’s whim): Monday: ongoing projects and other miscellaneous stuff Tuesday: vintage quilt patterns Wednesday: vintage fabrics Thursday: vintage embroidery transfers Friday: vintage…
Looking through these early 20th Century newspapers is such fun. I especially love reading the directions written by Adelaide Byrd. These two patterns are definitely going in the queue for a future grandchild. It occurred to me that the cap probably needs to be printed in its original size. This is tricky because there are…
Here are two pretty embroidery patterns which appeared in the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1914. Each week Adelaide Byrd presented a new full-sized embroidery pattern under the heading “For the Industrious Needlewoman,” accompanied by her suggestions for stitches, colors, and where the piece could be used. Apparently, in 1914 every woman knew how to make eyelets…
This was a series quilt from Stitch ‘n Sew magazine in 1978. Unfortunately, I only have the Mar/Apr and May/June issues, which means I only have full-sized patterns for the first 5 of 16 blocks. Fortunately, I was able to scan, clean and enlarge a small drawing of all of the patterns (although the detail…
Old Workbasket magazines had a sheet of embroidery transfers (red ink on craft paper) folded and stapled inside the pages. On one side of the staples was a large sheet of transfers; on the other side was a little section (2 1/2″ x 8″) that had its own unique designs. I’ve always loved these little…
The wedding is over, and I am happy to say that Emily was very pleased with the decor. It’s a lot of work bringing in all of your own linens, dishes, decorations, etc., but the end result was very cute. The photographer just emailed me today and said the photos would not be ready for…
Emily’s wedding is tomorrow, and I am actually feeling pretty relaxed. The entire living room is filled with boxes of glassware, plates, linens, candles, paper flowers, pennants, and numerous other decorations we have made. Tomorrow it’s all about packing the cars and meeting my sisters, my mother-in-law, and Aaron’s mother and aunt, who are going…
These transfers have been cut and are missing both the envelope and the instructions, so I don’t know the date or the publisher. Although I think the alphabet designs are very cute, I was disappointed because I expected each character’s name to begin with its accompanying letter, and in most cases they don’t — or…
This is one of the series quilt patterns published in many 1930s newspapers under the pseudonym “Nancy Page” by Florence La Ganke. The fictional Nancy would meet with her quilt club on successive Tuesdays, where she would introduce the next block and make suggestions for fabrics, colors, and techniques. You can read more about Florence…
I guess it might be a little late to stitch one of these up for tomorrow. On the other hand, if you start now, you would surely have them done by next 4th of July.