Do You Go Bananas For Pettipants?

Novelty embroidery by the bunches with these vintage Van Raalte pettipants.

Girls Who Do Needlework Are Heterosexual

And they're proud of it too.


Boye Needle Company proclaimed "Girls Like Boye's" and proffered a tee-shirt which read "Every Girl needs a Boye" on the back cover of McCall's Needlework & Crafts, Spring 1978 issue.

Thinking I just might be willing to kill for one of those shirts, I did a search at eBay for Every Girl needs a Boye -- and finding just one (irrelevant) result, do you know what eBay suggested I might have meant?

Did you mean... every girl needs a bone ?

Now that's funny. And redundant.

You Know What Sucks?

Not Mia's first attempt at "narrative embroidery":



Which makes me think my first attempt to narrate via needlework would also be be a hand -- only with one finger raised, as a political statement. Make of that what you will.

High-Five Fridays #10

Less kitschy, but still eyebrow raising...

1) Hitler and the Seven Dwarfs likely needs some sort of an introduction (if you haven't heard about it yet), but I like to make you curious enough to click.

2) A beautiful (and slightly creepy) vintage tablecloth with the embroidered signatures of British WWII prisoners.

Too cool for school...

3) Slippity-do-da's Very Draining Post, Indeed.

4) KKC was Found in Mom's Basement. (How'd we get in her mom's basement?)

5) A high-five to Marty Weil for his patience during my interview with him at CQ.

Want to give high-fives too? Participation is a lot like Thursday Thirteen, only your post is links to who and what you like. (Plus, it's only 5 instead of 13!)

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