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Free Pattern Friday — Poppies to Embroider

Posted on July 29, 2016July 28, 2016 by Martha

These realistic patterns for poppies appeared in the Boston Sunday Post in 1911. The designer signed the illustration with the initials GBW.  

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McCall’s Monday — Kitchen Revue, Six Designs for Dish Towels

Posted on July 25, 2016September 26, 2016 by Martha

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…

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McCall’s Monday — Fruit Motifs for Gay Kitchen

Posted on July 11, 2016September 26, 2016 by Martha
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Embroidery Designs for Towel Ends or Pillowcases

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Martha
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McCall’s Monday — Raggedy Ann Embroidery Transfers

Posted on July 4, 2016September 26, 2016 by Martha

McCall’s Kaumagraph Pattern 1287, DOW designs featuring Raggedy Ann.

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Free Pattern Friday — Initials for Embroidery

Posted on July 2, 2016September 26, 2016 by Martha

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.

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Free Pattern Friday – Laura Wheeler 718, Birds

Posted on June 24, 2016September 26, 2016 by Martha
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Free Pattern Friday — Lily of the Valley Embroidery Motifs

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Martha

In Oklahoma, my mother grew lily of the valley plants on the north side of our house where it was a little cooler. In the Pacific Northwest we don’t have that problem — you can grow lilies of the valley just about anywhere, and mine are just blooming. These patterns were published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in…

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Free Pattern Friday – Embroidery Designs for Pillowcases

Posted on June 10, 2016September 26, 2016 by Martha

Here are some sweet designs which appeared in The Chicago Tribune in 1912-13. More pillowcase designs and initial sets are available in earlier posts here and here and here. Click images to enlarge.  

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Free Pattern Friday — DOW Alice in Wonderland

Posted on June 3, 2016June 2, 2016 by Martha
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USA Memorial Day, 2016

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Martha
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McCall’s Monday — Vegetable Designs for Appliqué and Embroidery

Posted on May 23, 2016September 26, 2016 by Martha

No. 349 — Transfer for Vegetable Tea Towels for Applique and Embroidery. Blue. Price 25¢ These tea towels are guaranteed to chase away the “blues,” with the everyday vegetables in appliqué performing new roles. Reproduce the vegetables in their exact colors, making sure that the materials you use are fast colors. With outline and running…

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McCall’s Monday — Outline and Cross Stitch Motifs

Posted on May 2, 2016September 26, 2016 by Martha

No. 65 – Transfer Design for Cross-Stitch and Outline Motifs. Blue. Price, 25¢ Military motifs, outlined in brave colors, and prim little figures in cross-stitch are gay for nursery linens and children’s garments. Simplicity of line and color is the charm of these motifs. Pattern includes 2 or 4 each of the motifs illustrated from…

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McCall’s Monday — Embroidered Bird Motifs for Kitchen Towels

Posted on April 25, 2016September 26, 2016 by Martha

Does your partner help with household chores? I am lucky to be married to someone who does almost all of the cooking and lots of other things I won’t mention, because you would begin to wonder what I contribute — besides quilts, of course. Anyway, it’s fairly unusual to see men (even bird men) participating…

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Free Pattern Friday — Embroidery Designs for Baby, Winifred Worth, 1920

Posted on April 22, 2016April 21, 2016 by Martha

It’s unusual to see geometric or “Egyptian” embroidery designs for baby clothing, but I love the way these patterns look in the article’s cute illustration. Here’s what Winifred Worth had to say about her design. Anything for baby finds a ready response in every needleworker’s heart, and the daintiness of this design should especially appeal to you. The…

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