FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 80%

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 

I-WB141 The Workbasket Vol. 14 No. 1
Stapled softcover, 24 pages. Knitted Bunny sweater, crocheted hot pad, knitted gloves, cat head panholder, tatted vanity set, crocheted pocket trim, household tips, Aunt Ellen’s Club Notes, an article about Weaving, Part III continued from the September issue, crocheted imitation beading insertion and matching edging.
From the collection of Sarah Dalton, scanned by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder.

The household tips are always interesting to read – but one of the household tips might not be the best to follow. It says, Take two of your husbands socks and use them as mittens to dust after using furniture polish. Can you imagine the owners displeasure when confronted with the furniture polish stains and smells emanating from his socks and shoes? Oh, it might wash off – right. but why not use your own socks then? If this is a valid tip, my personal addition would be to use only socks that have been abandoned by their owner due to excessive wear or holes that cannot be repaired. That’d be better for your relationships 🙂