These realistic patterns for poppies appeared in the Boston Sunday Post in 1911. The designer signed the illustration with the initials GBW.
These realistic patterns for poppies appeared in the Boston Sunday Post in 1911. The designer signed the illustration with the initials GBW.
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…
McCall’s Kaumagraph Pattern 1287, DOW designs featuring Raggedy Ann.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
