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| MaryJanesNiece |
Posted - Dec 28 2018 : 2:23:08 PM
Check out these crochet and knit books! My grandma gave them to me the other day and said they were her mothers! I have been enjoying looking through them. Most of them are from the 1940s. I seen a really pretty Christmas doilies that I want to make. I'm so glad my grandma decided to share them with me.
Krista |
| 5 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| MaryJanesNiece |
Posted - Dec 31 2018 : 2:47:45 PM
My thoughts exactly, Nancy. It's my way of connecting with family I haven't met.
Linda, I was doing the same thing as a looked through them. There was some that I knew I would never want to make and some that I would love to make. I found the images to be the most interesting. It seems like they are very vague compared to patterns of this time frame.
Marie, that is very fascinating. How cool would that have been to send the troops some of your work.
Winnie, I agree. I hope to be able to continue to pass them on down and teach my little girl how to crochet one day as well.
Krista |
| Red Tractor Girl |
Posted - Dec 28 2018 : 4:46:21 PM
Krista, your new family treasures are wonderful. Just to be the keeper of your Grandma's pattern books is fun and I bet there will be projects that you will find fun to make. Your Grandma would be so happy that her books landed in your care where they will be loved and used!!
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Sister of the Year 2014-2015
FGOTM- October 2018 |
| churunga |
Posted - Dec 28 2018 : 4:45:27 PM
I've got a pattern book from 1910. In it there are patterns for knitwear to send to the troops in World War I. Such a cool historical document.
Marie, Sister #5142
Farmgirl of the Month May 2014
Try everything once and the fun things twice. |
| quiltee |
Posted - Dec 28 2018 : 4:00:12 PM
I have quite a few of those older pattern ooklets. Some were my grandmother's and my mother's, and some we got from Ed's sister's house when she passed away. I also have a lot of the older Annie's Attic booklets. They are fun to look through; some of the patterns I would never make, some I've made, and some I MAY make someday.
Farmgirl hugs,
Farmgirl #1919
Farm Girl of the Month April 2017
Linda O
Lone Oak, TX
"Women are Angels, and when someone breaks our wings, we simply continue to fly . . . on a broomstick - we're flexible, like that."
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| Tumbleweed |
Posted - Dec 28 2018 : 3:06:42 PM
How cool is that!
To think you are touching with your fingers the very same pages where your great grandmother's fingerprints were left.
TW
The fun begins where the sidewalk ends. Shel Silverstein |
