NEW PUBLICATION
The Workbasket Vol. 17 No. 7
I-WB177 The Workbasket Vol. 17 No. 7 – April 1952
Are you interested in knitting a blouse or a toddler’s cardigan and sunsuit? Perhaps you want to crochet a bunny pot holder, a lantern drawstring bag, initials in filet, lace edge doily or tatted clover edging. Other crafts are a lamb candle, a fabric purse, butterfly pin cushion, Easter party favors, and an elephant bookmark. There are how tos on dressing up your window shades, Paper Mache, and making patch pockets. Aunt Ellen’s notes discusses the background of coloring eggs in detail. Recipes include a Sunshine Pie that has carrot custard for a main ingredient. The garden experts tells us what to use and how often to spray apple trees. Experts explain how to get rid of soft scale, spittle bugs, frog hoppers, and aphids. Also we learn the proper way to pull up fall bulbs.
Stapled softcover, 64 pages. Scanned 400dpi jpg.
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.
Of particular interest is the pocket sewing article. There’s always this complaint that women’s clothes don’t have enough pockets – here’s your chance to set that right! And not only that: a patch pocket can cover an unfortunate hole in a garment. It won’t be invisible, but that won’t be a problem. I had a coat that was nice and warm and somehow mice gnawed holes in the sleeves, but I wasn’t willing to give up the coat, and now the sleeves have pockets all over. Make sure pockets on sleeves can be closed or the first time you lift your hands you’ll be losing keys, bank cards, coins, handkerchiefs ….
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