FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 63%

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, and this Workbasket Vol. 14 No. 10 is especially useful for crocheted household things.

NEW PUBLICATION 

M-BG005 American Red Cross – Turtleneck Pull-Over Sweater (U.S. Army)
Four sheets, one portrait and three landscape, with measurements and instructions for making for each size. Smallest size is 34, largest 50. Color is (unsurprisedly) specified as olive drab.
Scans donated by Becky Gillespie, edited by Sytske Wijnsma

Turtleneck sweaters are still popular, as the model is simple and versatile. Knitters can vary these instructions to make the sweater more in line with their own taste and preferences, concentrating on the decoration and stitches and essentially using the sweater as a canvas for artistic expression. The simpler the model, the more leeway the maker has to try alternate colors, designs, and stitches. Make a plan, get out your knitting needles and channel your inner artist! Maybe the U.S. Army wouldn’t approve it as official wear, but a turtleneck sweater will be as comfortable and useful as if it would be if it were plain, and knitting will be so much fun! Not to mention all those remnants that you might use up in making this. If you want ideas, head over to the Berlin woolwork section 🙂