FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 85%

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! 

NEW PUBLICATION 

I-WB142 The Workbasket Vol. 14 No. 2
Stapled softcover, 24 pages. Knitting and embroidering a sleeveless jacket and beanie ensemble, with small boy / girl figures and small yarn dolls as trim. Crocheted Wild Rose Motif inset, household tips, crocheted circle panholder, tatted medallion with crocheted edge, shell crocheted dish, crocheted shell edge, crocheted child’s mittens, Aunt Ellen’s Club Notes about Thanksgiving, a fourth article about weaving including knotting heddles, making a book binding for a year of Workbaskets, knitted open-work babushka, a statement of the ownership of the Workbasket, a crochet and sequins flower motif, a crocheted Liberty Bell edging, and lots of period advertisements.
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.

A varied Workbasket, with tatting, knitting, weaving, crochet, and those lovely small yarn dolls. The knitted jacket with those over-embroiderd figures is charming, and the charts for the little figures would also be useful for cross-stitch embroidery, maybe as embroidered edging with the figures holding hands. Very reminiscent of sampler patterns and maybe that’s where they originally are from.