FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 61%

To keep our Library up and running, we hold a fundraising campaign from September to December.

This is the link to the donation button: Donate to keep the Antique Pattern Library running!  

If you can’t afford to donate, but would like to help the Antique Pattern Library, introducing the Library to people who don’t know of it yet, is very useful, since it broadens our user base and therefore also our future donor base. Blogs, Tiktok, Instagram, Pinterest, Ravelry, Facebook, other social media – show others your favorite publications and what you made using them. Our work is only useful when people actually use it!

If that is not possible either, just enjoy our new publications either for inspiration or for your own work! There’s always something new to try out and something well-known to sharpen our skills with!

NEW PUBLICATION 

E-WM263 Jane Eayre Fryer – The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book
Copyright 1918, illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer. Hardcover book. Lovely story about Mary Frances and her doll Mary Marie, for whom Mary Frances learns to make clothes. Taught by her own knitting needles, ball of wool, crochet hook, yarn doll and a fairy who helps children who really want to learn, Mary Frances makes scarves, sweaters, hats, slippers, mittens and much more. Excellent instruction book for young children. The book ends with a child’s and lady’s knitted sweater, and a final chapter on knitting Red Cross items.
Scans donated by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book has been reprinted many times and is also available on the Gutenberg site. It is part of a series about Mary Frances learning important household skills. Very useful to teach children the essentials of making crocheted and knitted items, and because dolls clothes are so small, the projects do not take a lot of time.