FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 7000 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 12%!

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!  

Your donation pays for costs of supporting our projects such as scanners and other hardware, the occasional shipping costs for people who want to donate books but can’t afford the transatlantic shipping costs, general costs such as internet service provider, office address, and our application for charity status. Volunteers do the scanning and editing, and new books are paid from our private purses. 

Occasionally we get the question “Why don’t you just sell your stuff, you’d need no donation then?” which is correct, but not in accordance with the idea that our heritage should be available to everybody who wants to use or appreciate it, and profit is no part of that. To keep that, we do need donations. So, if you have a couple dollars to spare, we’d be glad to have them!

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!

And now for the new publication:

The Workbasket Vol. 16 No. 1

I-WB161 The Workbasket Vol. 16 No. 1
Hairpin lace: Vanity set with large and small doily. Huck weaving on towel. Crochet: Apron and matching pan holder. Figurine painting, Women who make cents (articles to sell), Aunt Ellen’s Club Notes with a banana nut bread receipe, Pumpkin Cake, Creamy Caramel Icing, Green Tomato Relish, Orange Pudding, Popcorn Balls. Crochet: Pinwheel Pan Holder. Home and Garden forum tips. Waffle Pique Embroidery, Crocheted Teddy Bear, crocheted Rose Pin Cushion with Ruffle, Basket making, Halloween Clown doll, Lilac Square Tatting. Quilting: Colonial Rose Quilt, Crocheted Scarf.
Stapled softcover, 64 pages.
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.

Quite an unusal set of articles this time. We are so used to having crochet, crochet, knitting, crochet in the Workbasket that I kept looking for it. Some crochet, certainly, but also tatting and quilting and that porcelain painting. There are some book reviews, and one of them is for a book we also have in the catalog (probably still under copyright so not published) and that’s always funny, to read a review of 75 years old and agreeing with every line. Including the one about not starting to make patterns until you’re somewhat experienced. I tried anyway and failed miserably. Heed the ancient wisdom, and enjoy what these pages inspire you to make.