Last year I posted scans of 20 little girls from this undated vintage paint book by Mary Alice Stoddard, and I mentioned that I would also upload 20 images of little boys from the same book. I forgot all about this until yesterday, when I received an email from Wanetha, who included a photo of…
No sewing today, but I did manage to clean up some more of these sweet embroidery patterns. In a couple of days I’ll be back with an actual quilting post.
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I just realized last week that the images on my site are distorted using Internet Explorer 8. Apparently the problem has something to do with my WordPress theme, but so far I haven’t been able to figure it out. If you are using IE8 and the images are messed up, you can click on the…
In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are some cute transfers from an old “Fashion Folder” transfer booklet (V574). I think I have 6 of these booklets — this one is designed “for Teenager….for Youngster…for Crib Set.” When opened, the sheets are 11″ x 17″, with 12 pages of transfers in red ink. Since my…
Obviously it’s a little late to stitch this up for Thanksgiving, but I just found this cute vintage transfer. Thank you to all of my online friends who have given me tons of support, advice, inspiration and friendship.
There are a lot of transfers in this envelope — 3 big sheets filled with small and medium designs. These are numo transfers — they have raised blue dots and are one use only. Although none of the transfers had been used, they were a little brittle and some of the dots had flaked off,…
A couple of months ago I purchased on ebay a catalog of perforated patterns from the M. J. Cunning Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio. Included in the sale were 2 groups of actual perforated patterns — the holes are so tiny that I imagine the pouncing powder must have been very fine. Although there is no…
This is a mail-away pattern (#7302) which was offered in newspapers in the 1940s from Needlecraft Services. The transfers were meant to be stitched as quilt blocks, and the instructions included a diagram of a quilt 3 blocks x 4 blocks with sashing and a wide border. The completed size was 72″ x 102″. These…
Here is Laura Wheeler mail order transfer, #2307, dated 1939 — a project for sewing and embroidering a laundry bag with an appliqued and embroidered pocket for hankies. On the original transfer, the HANKIES lettering was not on the pocket so you could iron it separately onto the applique fabric. Probably most of you (with…
This is a large mail order transfer dated 1938 from Laura Wheeler Designs (#2266). My copy is in pretty bad shape, with some mouse chews and stains in addition to the usual yellowing. Probably mothers don’t teach this poem to their children anymore because of the whole dying in their sleep thing. Of course, it…
Since I am working on a Christmas quilt and am still sort of “in the spirit,” I thought I would post this darling pattern just in case someone would like to stitch it up for Christmas, 2010. This may be my all-time favorite cover of Needlecraft, The Home Arts Magazine. The designer’s name is…
Because I am still working on the antique quilt tops (bed and doll) and am not quite ready to show photographs, I thought I would post some more vintage embroidery patterns. These pretty floral designs were published in The Workbasket magazine in 1956-57. I think they are so cute with their colored highlights. My envelope contained…
Just in case you want to stitch one of these up for that special someone on Valentine’s Day.
My Paint Book Samuel Lowe Company, 1941 (I added the “Happy New Year” text)