My goodness the week goes quickly! So it's already time to link up with The Rainbow Hare blog to share some yarn related posts. Janine has written a post about a beautiful blue flower she has crocheted...the colour of the yarn is stunning!
Last week I decided to sort through the items in this pink box...
For a number of years I've put printouts from craft/quilting/knitting websites and photocopies of project patterns and instructions from craft mags in this pink box...and then have forgotten about them! :-/. So I had a 'sort and turf out' session of anything that I knew that realistically I would never make.
The other 'find' was this rather battered photocopied sheet. One of my neighbours ( since passed away) when I lived at Newmarket, hand wrote this pattern for baby slippers for me. And I made lots of these too...such memories.
And today I posted the completed baby afghan to the collection point for K4C ( Knit for Charity) . One of the Charities of this Month was Mara's Rest Cottage. I also sent a colourful knitted blanket that I once bought from an elderly lady at the local markets. The lady was selling some of her handiwork and had very low prices on them. I offered her more money but she wouldn't take it, so I paid $8 for a brand new metre square rug. I always planned to knit up another border on the blanket to make it larger...never did, did I? Lol. But it's perfect for a child, so it's off to Mara's Rest too.
So these 2 are now on their way to the ACT and new homes.
For a number of years I've put printouts from craft/quilting/knitting websites and photocopies of project patterns and instructions from craft mags in this pink box...and then have forgotten about them! :-/. So I had a 'sort and turf out' session of anything that I knew that realistically I would never make.
But I did find items that I was delighted to see and keep. A surprise find was some patterns that I used to use in the 1980s...
A cardigan pattern that I knitted many times, both for my girls and for church fete stalls. It was torn from an English Women's Weekly. My mum had been buying the EWW since the 1950s and I bought it too in the 1970s-1990s...loved their knitting patterns.
The other 'find' was this rather battered photocopied sheet. One of my neighbours ( since passed away) when I lived at Newmarket, hand wrote this pattern for baby slippers for me. And I made lots of these too...such memories.
In the envelope with Dulcie's handwritten pattern was this one which I wrote out by hand too for the same slippers...I wouldn't write something out these days! Lol
I still have a few of my mum's patterns...not thing I made but I still keep them...I'm sure Mara's rest will appreciate your blankets.
ReplyDeletethe Woman`s weekly is still in print here Mum used to buy it too. It is amazing how many patterns etc we collect but these days I have them on the computer and print off the ones I want to do, mind you most of them will ever get done. Blanket will be warm and cosy for whoever receives them.
ReplyDeleteThat's good that you found some favourites amongst your saved patterns. I love the way your neighbour drew pictures of the baby slippers. My mum also used to buy Woman's Weekly. It sounds like it was a world wide bestseller for a time! Your baby Afgan is beautiful and the other blanket looks nice too. They will make some children very snug and be much loved, I'm sure. Thank you for linking up with Wool on Sundays :)
ReplyDeleteOh! For years I did the very same thing regarding collecting. However, I clipped or printed them put them in plastic sleeves then put the sleeves in binders....all 10 of them (I collected for a LOT of years!) I recently went through them all and pared it all down. Like you, I found patterns I used and some I still really wanted to. The more you think about purging, the easier it becomes.
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Oh Maria .. those blankets look wonderful and will be perfect for Maya's Rest (for which I'm the collector) so I'll be looking forward to receiving them. Thank you so much. xox Doesn't it feel good to have a clean out? I recently concentrated on my craft room and am now feeling so much better. It only took me two years and a U3A course in de-cluttering recently to get around to doing it.
ReplyDeleteWhat treasures you found in that pink box! I have several copies of the Workbasket that go back to the 30's-50's that were my mom's. I have them in acid free page protectors in a scrapbook. Old patterns are so precious.
ReplyDeleteMy Grandma subscribed to a little magazine called Workbasket also. Probably not the same magazine in Australia though. I just love the second blanket with the black borders. You are so good at combining colors.
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