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ABC Painting Reading Book, 1934

Posted on June 22, 2012July 3, 2012 by Martha

This is my new book, and I love it so much.  Each of the ABC pages has a companion outline page to paint, but they are all colored or painted and would be nearly impossible to clean up.  Fortunately, the example pages are in good shape. ABC Painting Reading Whitman Publishing, 1934

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Royal Society Embroidery Transfer Book

Posted on June 21, 2012June 21, 2012 by Martha

This booklet was in the box of old transfers and lace I found at a thrift shop in Utah during our road trip last year.  According to sewingpalette.com, Royal Society sold thread, yarns, kits and needlework pattern books from 1915 through the 1920s. “In the early 1920s the company produced a series of hot iron…

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Vintage Fabric Gallery – 1930s Yellows

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Martha

For some strange reason, among the main 1930s fabric colors, yellow prints are hard to find.  I’m always so happy to see any yellows in a group of purchased scraps or pieces.

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Eastern Bluebird Applique Pattern

Posted on June 19, 2012August 19, 2019 by Martha

This pattern is from a 1985 Lady’s Circle Patchwork Quilts magazine, which featured quilts and quilt patterns from New York state.  If I were going to make this block, I think I would redraw the bluebird to make him just a little shorter and chubbier than the one in this pattern. After reading Tina’s comment,…

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Emily’s Doll Heart Quilt

Posted on June 18, 2012June 18, 2012 by Martha

Originally I planned to do more detailed quilting in the border of this quilt, but in the end I thought it looked better just to repeat the design in the sashing.  It’s kind of hard to do elaborate quilting on doll quilts because of the small scale and all the seams. The binding and backing…

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Simple Objects to Color, Musical Instruments – Lois Ehlert

Posted on June 15, 2012June 3, 2017 by Martha

Here are more illustrations from one of my favorite old coloring books (earlier group here).  My favorite, the accordion, is for Gina. Click images to enlarge.

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Walker’s Embroidery Transfers – More Pots and Pans

Posted on June 14, 2012June 14, 2012 by Martha

Here’s the last of these cute kitchen transfers (click here for the other images from this group).  Unfortunately, my cat attacked the tissue paper, and damaged a bowl and a measuring cup.  Maybe I can reconstruct them in Photoshop.

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Vintage Fabric Gallery – 1930s Lavenders

Posted on June 13, 2012June 12, 2012 by Martha

More Depression era salesman sample swatches, this time in shades of lavender.

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Lockport Hand Quilting Pattern Catalog

Posted on June 12, 2012July 27, 2015 by Martha

Hopefully I have scanned these booklet pages at a high enough resolution to allow you to enlarge these small motifs and turn them into patterns. More hand quilting patterns can be found here.

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Cross Stitched Birth Sampler

Posted on June 11, 2012June 11, 2012 by Martha

Do you have any of those embarrassing projects that were almost done, but then somehow never made it to the finish line?  My sampler should qualify, having been made for my (now 30 year old) son shortly after he was born.  I finished the sampler in a reasonable amount of time, but it has languished…

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Simple Objects to Color – Lois Ehlert

Posted on June 8, 2012June 3, 2017 by Martha

This cute coloring book was published by Watkins-Strathmore in 1961.   I’m pretty sure, although I can find no documentation, that this must be the same Lois Ehlert who illustrated many popular children’s books beginning in the 1980s, including Color Zoo (1989), a Caldecott Honor Book.  She would have been 27 in 1961, and it…

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Walker’s Embroidery Transfers – Pots and Pans

Posted on June 7, 2012January 15, 2019 by Martha

These designs are from a sheet of Walker’s blue numo hot iron transfers — the ones on tissue paper with blue raised dots that are one use only.  The serial number for this sheet is 1598, and it came in an assortment with 3 other sheets.  Sometimes these numo transfers don’t look too great, even…

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Vintage Fabric Gallery – 1930s Pinks

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Martha

These fabric swatches are part of a large lot of salesman samples from the 1930s.  The photos represent a 2″ x 3″ rectangle of each print.

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Aunt Priscilla Scrappy Patchwork Patterns

Posted on June 5, 2012July 27, 2015 by Martha

Because I have always loved scrappy quilts with lots of little pieces, these three patterns are all on my list of quilts to make.  I especially love the third pattern, which I hadn’t seen before.  There generally are not many directions in these old patterns, and in this case there aren’t any.  The first and…

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Dean’s Rag Book Doll Quilt Top

Posted on June 4, 2012June 4, 2012 by Martha

For this little top I used two vintage cloth books published in the UK by Dean’s Rag Book Co.  The company began in 1903 producing small books printed on muslin that they advertised as “safe and washable” for baby.  Later they expanded into stuffed bears and cloth dolls.  Dean’s Rag Books were still being made…

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