I use vintage patterns, some of which belonged to my grandmother, with today's fabrics and yarns. I take vintage needlework magazines and work from the patterns in them. The magazines date from 1912 through to the fifties, and I try and use the patterns from them as they would have been originally used. Sometimes I will adapt them and make something else. I prefer to specialize with the thirties and forties patterns and occasionally dip my toe into the fifties.

When I feel the need to bring things up to date, sometimes adapting the original vintage patterns. I also design my own patterns so you can make lovely items too.


Sunday 19 May 2013

And the winner is...............


My friend Jane kindly picked the name for me


And the winner is ...................


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Friday 10 May 2013

1945

GIVEAWAY!



Wow! How does this work. I've just made one from scratch and I still don't know! As soon as I saw this little novelty I just knew I had to bring it up to date.  It was originally a knitting pattern holder, but I thought why not put in it all those cuttings and ideas that you tear from  magazines and then find you have tucked them into a draw or slipped them into a book and forgotten about them. Why not have a go and be fascinated as I was.  
(It is just the folder not the magazine which is one of my collection.)

I can be found here too




I have one to give away!

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