Photographs of vintage fashion dolls wearing homemade knit fashions scanned from Virginia Lakin’s Petite Bazaar Knitting Book Three (1963).
If you live in the US or Canada and love it, you can buy this vintage booklet from me; or you can check eBay.
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PS Keep an eye on Craft Scan Fridays for one or two of the patterns to be posted.
Start now! You’ll have it ready by Father’s Day.
The lucky folks at Apartment Therapy got to see this crocheted version of the White Album; thankfully, they were cool enough to share it.
When a girl’s lease doesn’t allow pets, she improvises. No word on whether or not he was a Blue Ribbon dog.
Some days, you’re just sitting around with a couple knitting needles and a few skeins of wool, and you think to yourself, “self, I really should knit myself a viking.” So you go to work, without really thinking about how one would really knit a viking, but you’re a dedicated crafter, and in the end your result looks like this:
And then the entire Reddit world totally freaks out at your awesomeness. (via)
Mrs. Skele Ton has friends — and you can find out how to crochet her hat and make her other clothes — at her home, Minna’s Doll World.
From that 1962 New Ideas For Christmas magazine, “Soapsuds Centerpieces” — an article on using soap or detergent powder to “whip up” holiday decorations.
How? By dressing those wishbones up first.
Since this craft project idea comes from the 1962 New Ideas For Christmas, the Fawcett publication supposes you’ll have wishbones left over from Thanksgiving (How many wishbones does a turkey have?) — and the “wishbone figurine” suggestions are Santas, angels, etc.
But don’t be so limited in your thinking.
Why not save all the wishbones you can this holiday season (and whenever you can get them) and make little wishbone figures that look just like your ex, the guy foreclosing on your home or buying your repossessed storage unit, etc. That way when you break them, it will be much more therapeutic.
This retro craft idea isn’t particularly exceptional — other than the fact that it was published in 1971 and refers to the project as “Making a Coal Glove.” Yes, a reference to coal gloves in 1971, specifically for children. The author, if not a teacher herself, was at least writing to them, perhaps was anticipating lots of naughty children who were familiar with Santa’s list of coal deliveries.
The author’s advice: “Old shoe boxes make excellent houses.” (I think she means for dolls, not the homeless; but in this economy, perhaps we might consider some of the options.)
Wouldn’t it be ironic to make paper furniture for your vintage paper dollhouse from the pages in this book?
From Play With Paper by Thea Bank-Jensen
