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. 15 No. 8

I-WB158 The Workbasket Vol. 15 No. 8 – May 1950
Five-Piece Tatted Luncheon Set. Crochet: Star Dresser Scarf. Sewing Machine Artist Mrs. Hugh Kau. Aunt Ellen’s Club Notes: Folk Songs and Ballads. Recipe: Maybasket Cup Cake. Crochet: A Hat in Lacy Crocheting. Recipes: Hot Potato Salad, Pineapple Salad, Cabbage and Apple Salad, Stuffed Orange Halves, Frozen Fruit Salad. Crochet: Pincushion, Crocheted Bib, Snowflake Coaster, Table Scarf, Child’s Crocheted Dress. Knitting: Zig Zag Ribbing. Crochet: Bedspread Motif, Flower Edge. Embroidery: Miss May. Sewing: Hints on Sewing Nylon Material.
Stapled softcover, 48 pages. 
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.

If you think targeted advertisements are a modern thing, this issue shows it was a much older tactic: right before the article about the sewing machine artist, there’s an advertisement about a sewing machine and cabinet. Also interesting is an advertisement about a tid-bit tree, a plastic tree on which to hang cookies and sweets etc., which might be a good idea to use on the Christmas tree for the cat owners among us. I have several cats and I haven’t hung ordinary ornaments in the tree for years and years, because the cats are really fascinated by them and if I was away for a few hours I would find the ornaments anywhere but in the tree. Candy canes and chocolate garlands are left alone by the cats, but not by the resident humans: the alternate decorations would disappear just as fast and had to be replaced daily.