Category: Embroidery Patterns

I realize the posts have been a little thin the past couple of weeks — mostly because of the events (some good and some bad) that are taking place in my life right now. We are in the last stages of a complete kitchen remodel 🙂 and have to be out of the house for…

I’ll have a few Christmas presents to show pretty soon, but while I’m working on them, I’ll keep posting these old transfers.

I realize it’s not even Thanksgiving yet, but these are large designs and I thought they would take a while to stitch.  These are from a Fashion Folder – Holiday Patterns vintage transfer booklet.  There are lots more smaller transfers which I plan to post soon.

Hope it’s not too late for you to stitch up some of these cute Artex Thanksgiving transfers.

More cute little tots from the 1948 Simplicity Needlework Catalog. A month ago there was a huge lot of vintage Simplicity embroidery patterns (lots of them from this catalog), and they sold for over $300! I wish I had the original patterns, but most of these are not too difficult to copy from the envelope…

Halloween is a big deal in our family — especially for my sister, Mary. Every year she decorates her whole house and has a big family party. Also, my little brother, Larry, was born on Halloween, so we always made a big fuss over him. Larry was born with many health and developmental problems and…

This little folder was tucked in with a group of vintage patterns I purchased from Great Britain. There is no date, and although I expect they are pretty old, they’re in perfect condition. The transfers are printed on parchment type paper and I’m sure they would iron just fine, but I’m not going to try…

Here are some more cute embroidery patterns from the 1948 Simplicity Needlework Catalog. I have seen other elephant day-of-the-week patterns and lots of anthropomorphic pots and pans, but I haven’t seen these before. The expressions on the spoons are pretty cute. I hope these are clear enough to allow you to copy the patterns. Happy…

Here are more patterns from the 1948 Simplicity catalog.  The pattern suggestions for using these motifs include  luncheon cloths and tray cloths.  I’m not completely sure what these are — I thought maybe luncheon cloths were sort of smallish tablecloths because  I remember some cute embroidered tablecloths we had when I was a girl.  They…

Here are more of the cute motifs from the 1948 Simplicity catalog —  for use on rompers, frocks, playsuits and pinafores, just to name a few. They’re so sweet and remind me of the little embroideries in some of the new Japanese books.

These are more little animals from an old Workbasket transfer sheet which came stapled to the inside of the magazine. Originally there were these little bits that were on the other side of the staples, but often they will be missing when you find a group of these old transfers.  Most of the time these…