It’s been cold outside, right? So while you’ve been dreaming of Summer, why not spend the time knitting your own red, white, and blue fashions for the Fourth Of July? Mom and daughter get a pair of matching sundresses. But poor dad has to suffer in a real sweater. …Maybe he just got a real bad sunburn while yachting and feels chilled. Anyway, dad’s pattern is free for you today. The mother-daughter dress patterns are for sale here.
Two of the frilliest kitsch knit sweaters we ever did see. Digital patterns for sale here.
A vintage ad for Spanky, a 24-inch, freckle-faced little boy doll pattern — actually, a “professional type, pull sized pattern” from Creations by Mavis. Which is good, because even in 1978, we were not sending in three whole dollars off for some amateur type pattern.
Oh-yeah.
Remember, ponchos can be skirts!
Coats & Clark’s book #207, Shawls & Ponchos, crochet, knit, hairpin lace; copyright 1971, second edition.
Love it? Need it? If you’re in the Us or Canada, you can buy it from me. Otherwise, check eBay.
SOLD
PS I just love that a pom-pon or pom-pom is defined as “a decorative ball of fluff.”
As promised, pattern instructions from Virginia Lakin’s Petite Bazaar Knitting Book Three. I’m including the hula skirt and the bra or swimsuit top — because I don’t want your fashion doll to go topless! (And the tips pages too, so you can be sure to make your fashion doll’s clothing just right.)
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.
SOLD
PS Keep an eye on Craft Scan Fridays for one or two of the patterns to be posted.