Category: Embroidery Patterns

It turns out I was wrong about this transfer.  Although it looks very much like the Alice Brooks Cottage #1 transfer, it’s an American Weekly pattern.  Of course, it could be that American Weekly was just another name used by Needlecraft Services Co. who published patterns under the Alice Brooks and Laura Wheeler names.  The…

This is the first of the large group of vintage transfers sent to me by my friend, Patty (Petalier at Etsy).  It’s one of two cottages in the group, and I wonder if there might have been even more in the original series.  It takes 8 scans to capture the entire sheet, and fitting the…

There’s still time to stitch up a little Easter cuteness.  These patterns are from Book 7 of the 20 volume 1973 series, Make it Yourself – The Complete Step-by-Step Library of Needlework and Crafts.

These Briggs transfers were included in Needlewoman and Needlecraft magazine, published in the UK from the 40s through the 70s. Lucy, who lives in Suffolk, has an amazing collection of N&N, and wrote an interesting post about the magazine’s history. My friend, Mickie, sent me a copy of this adorable Noah’s Ark transfer from Needlecraft & Needlewoman,…

These sweet valentine transfers are from the cut and loose bin, so I have no idea who published them.          

These transfers were sold on ebay, and are not from my collection.  The low-resolution photos were pretty bad, but I have cleaned and enlarged them. I think they are now at least traceable (click for full size). This cute nursery pattern (No. 20782) was published by Weldon’s (no date). The second pattern (No. 39) was…

Here is another series pattern by Eveline Foland which was published in the Kansas City Star.  I have seen old children’s books that combined a Christmas story with Mother Goose characters, but I think it’s a little odd that the name of this quilt makes no reference to Mother Goose.  Also, the nursery rhyme characters…

Here are more transfers from vintage Workbasket magazines.  Click to enlarge. Earlier posts with vintage Christmas transfers are located here, here, here, here and here.  

Here are some smallish transfers from vintage Workbasket magazines.  I thought about waiting to post these until after Thanksgiving, but I wanted to allow enough time for stitching.  There are quite a few more that I will clean up and post over the next week or so.  Click to enlarge.

This small page was part of the group of antique transfers I purchased on our road trip last year.  There were some very old Royal Society and DMC transfer booklets in the lot, but this page did not seem to belong to them.  There are no identifying marks on the sheet, except for the following…

When I was organizing my vintage transfers today, I found another sheet of Workbasket patterns with a Japanese theme.  The motifs in this group are much smaller than the earlier group with the beautiful geishas.

These three patterns are from a sheet of transfers stapled inside an old Workbasket magazine.  The sheets were printed with red ink on heavy newsprint type paper (like my old coloring books), and because the paper turns brown and brittle over time, they are usually very fragile. Oops!  I forgot to add the little piece…

Thank you for the feedback on Marjorie’s owl dress.  I feel much better about the embroidery after reading your nice comments.  I have a tendency to be overly critical of my work. Now for this weeks transfers, which are very small and so sweet — there are 16 tiny transfer patterns on one page of…