FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING HAS REACHED – NO, EXCEEDED – ITS GOAL! CURRENTLY AT 115% and more donations are still coming in!

To keep our Library up and running, we hold a fundraising campaign from September to December. It has been succesful, thank you all!

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!

And here is the new publication:

The Workbasket Vol. 17 No. 2

I-WB172 The Workbasket Vol. 17 No. 2 – November 1951
Crochet: Place Mat. Tatting: Tatted Butterfly. Crochet: Crocheted Rug. Selling handmade items. Kn itting: Knitted Doily With Pointed Edge. Sewing: Bitty Bears. Aunt Ellen’s Club Notes. Junior Workbasket: making string holder from an old funnel. Cooking: Turkey Roll, Date Gems, Gingerbread Muffins, Orange Cake. Crochet: Pillowcase Insertion, Hot Pan Holder, How to Crochet (with basic crochet stitches). Felt Earrings and matching buttons. Crochet: Leaf Doily. Embroidery: Thanksgiving Miss. Sewing: Stove Pads, Take Pride in Your Darning. Tatting: Yoke or Collar, Combining Two Pieces of Insertion. Crochet: Snowflake Doily, “Varsity” Beanie in Crochet. Cute Lapel Pins of Felt. Crochet: Double Shell Insertion.
Stapled softcover, 80 pages. Scanned 400dpi bitmap.
From the collection of Sarah Dalton, scanned by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Linda M. Mays. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder.

The felt lapel pins and the bitty bears would brighten so many small items and make them suitable for Christmas stocking fillers. I’m even thinking of those bottle cap pin cushions made with small felt designs and embroidery that might incorporate these patterns.