I love finding old carded buttons (and other sewing supplies) at the thrifts. The packaging alone is usually a work of art & they often are examples of our old retail landscape. In today’s finds I found old Twin Fair and Hens & Kelly tags- along with a cursive Sears logo. Who else […]
The Octagon Pattern For Bedspreads No. 853 dates from 1920 and was originally published in Corticelli Lessons in Crochet Nook No. 13. I have been searching to see what the original yardage of the Mercerized Cordonnet was but thinking it was nowhere near the yardage of crochet thread today but thinking it was closer to […]
The Online Knitting Reference Library: Download 300 Knitting Books Published From 1849 to 2012 No need to scramble to the fallout shelter, friends. That massive boom you just heard is merely the sound of thousands of crafters’ minds being blown en masse by the University of Southhampton’s Knitting Reference Library, an extensive resource of books, […]
How many of these do you remember?
