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Poster Picture Book to color — Peter Mabie, 1934

Posted on June 28, 2013June 29, 2013 by Martha

This is a wonderful old coloring book that I’ve been wanting to share for some time.  Unfortunately, all but a few of the 96 pages have been colored with crayon, so each illustration requires a cleanup in Photoshop.  I shouldn’t complain, because I’m amazed that these books survive at all as the newsprint type paper…

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Friendship Knot Quilt Blocks

Posted on June 18, 2013August 1, 2015 by Martha

Over the past couple of months, I have been working on several different quilts, including Seven Sisters, Triangle, Grandmother’s Flower Garden Star and these Friendship Knot quilt blocks. I wrote a post about this pattern in 2010 when I only had one block finished — now there are five. That works out to be about…

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Alice in Wonderland Painting Book — Quilt Block #7

Posted on June 11, 2013October 23, 2015 by Martha

Here’s the latest block stitched from my old painting book published by Platt and Munk Co. It took a long time to complete this block because I’ve only been working on it sporadically.  I’m more than halfway done, with five more blocks to stitch, and I still have no idea how I’m going to put…

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Cross Stitch Mother Goose — Whitman, 1932

Posted on May 17, 2013October 23, 2015 by Martha

I’ve never seen a cross stitch book like this before.  It’s the same size as a typical Whitman soft wrap children’s book from the period (9 1/2″ x 13″), and I think it might have been published simply as a Mother Goose picture book, albeit with unusual illustrations.  Of course, you could also use it…

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American Weekly Transfer #3160 — Cottage #2

Posted on May 5, 2013May 5, 2013 by Martha

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…

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Alice Brooks Transfer #5646 — Cottage #1

Posted on May 3, 2013May 5, 2013 by Martha

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…

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Triangle Quilt Update

Posted on May 2, 2013May 2, 2013 by Martha

The Triangle Quilt now has 22 rows.  You might wonder what is taking me so long, since this is a relatively easy to sew pattern, so I’ll explain.  Each triangle is drawn and cut by hand, and most of them are recycled from old quilt blocks and tops which need to be unpicked, soaked, and…

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Laura Wheeler Quilt Pattern – Flower of Spring

Posted on April 22, 2013August 1, 2015 by Martha

My friend, Patty (Petalier on Etsy), sent me an enormous box of vintage embroidery transfers, many of which were the large format designs from Laura Wheeler and American Weekly.  I am in the process of scanning the transfers and will be posting them soon. Tucked in among the transfers was this timely and pretty quilt…

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Seven Sisters Quilt — Finished Blocks

Posted on April 11, 2013April 13, 2013 by Martha

Here’s what I said in a post about this quilt when I first started: This project began with a box of vintage salesmen sample swatches — probably from the 1940s or maybe the 1950s. There were hundreds of prints (some with duplicates and different colorways), and all of the pieces were the same size (1…

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Vintage Apron Panel – Adapted

Posted on April 5, 2013January 2, 2017 by Martha

Although it’s a little difficult to make out in this busy print with it’s unusual color scheme, this is actually a Christmas apron panel.  It was another interesting gift from my friend, Patty, who has a wonderful Etsy shop, Petalier, where she sells her beautiful quilts, along with vintage sewing-related items. The panel was mostly…

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Happy Easter!

Posted on March 31, 2013July 27, 2015 by Martha

Children’s Playmate Magazine Fern Bisel Peat, Illustrator

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Herrschners Chic Kitchenette Aprons, 1928 — My Version

Posted on March 26, 2013January 2, 2017 by Martha

I love these old Herrschner Art Needlework catalogs from the 1920s; the aprons and children’s wear items are my favorites. The style of these aprons is appealing to me because they are simple to make, have good coverage (I am a messy cook), and the embroidered details are so sweet.  For my two aprons, I…

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Children of Other Lands, 1954 — Hawaii, Alaska, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, & Canada

Posted on March 16, 2013August 1, 2015 by Martha

In 1959, not long after this coloring book was published, Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states.  As an 11 year-old growing up in Oklahoma, I remember thinking how cool it was to have such exotic places become part of the United States. You can find the previously posted countries by clicking on…

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Children of Other Lands, 1954 — Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Egypt, Turkey, Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia, and Greece

Posted on March 15, 2013August 1, 2015 by Martha

I noticed that African and South American countries are underrepresented in this coloring book.  A modern “Children of Other Lands” coloring book would probably be a lot more diverse, but I wonder if the illustration style would be as cute. You can find the previously posted countries by clicking on these links: Holland, England-Sweden-Hungary-Czechoslovakia-Austria, Japan-China-India-Burma-Korea-Arabia,…

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Children of Other Lands, 1954 – Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Denmark, Finland & Norway

Posted on March 13, 2013August 1, 2015 by Martha

Finally, I have managed to scan and clean the rest of this cute coloring book. Over the next week I will post all of the remaining countries in no particular order.  You can find the previously posted countries by clicking on these links: Holland, England-Sweden-Hungary-Czechoslovakia-Austria, Japan-China-India-Burma-Korea-Arabia, and France-Switzerland-Italy-Germany.  Click any image for slideshow.

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