The Workbasket Vol. 14 No. 5

FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 94%, nearly 95!

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-WB145 The Workbasket Vol. 14 No. 5
Stapled softcover, 32 pages. Crochet: Roll stitch doily. Knitting: knitted mittens with in-knitted girls face, knitted lace. Crochet: Filet Luncheon Set with three monograms, alphabet chart included. Crochet: Cross Bar Lastec Belt. Crocheted and Tatted edge. Knitted toeless bootees, knitted insertion.Aunt Ellen’s Club Notes. Brass and Coppercraft, etching and coloring with chemicals, alphabet for etching included. Crocheted Vanity Set. Knitted Bed Sock.
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.

Warm mittens, bedsocks, and baby bootees with a ribbon, though without toes – this Workbasket prepares for cold weather!  The crocheted and tatted edging looks lovely, with tatted medaillions as base, edged and joined with crochet. The chemical coloring of copper and brass reminds me of our high school chemical experiments, when in my memory there was always something that exploded, burned, or issued vile fumes, so be careful! The luncheon set is personalized with three initials, likely those of the household they were made for. It’d be a bit too much to expect that every guest would be asked “Your initials, please?” and then be presented with their own placemat, but for members of the household it’d be doable and would serve as place card at the same time.