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The Workbasket – November 1951
Is everybody ready for another vintage Workbasket installment? The next magazine in my small collection is from November 1951. It is Volume 17, Number 1. According to my calculations that means The Workbasket started in October 1934. Recently an older lady friend of mine was letting me go through her crochet patterns… Be still my heart! The vintage patterns she…
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The Workbasket – October 1951
Yes, ladies (and any gentlemen who are interested), it’s time once again for an irregular installment of The Workbasket magazine from almost 60 years ago. Send along your 15 cents (in cash or stamps, please) and you, too, (along with Miss A. L. Davitt–whoever she might have been) can learn how to make a cross-stitch rug, along with many other…
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The Workbasket – February 1951
Check it out! Color printing! But The Workbasket is still only 15 cents! What a deal! “Ideas for the Bazaar, the Home, Gifts, Sparetime Money Makers, with Many Articles, Easily Made and Inexpensive, that find a Ready Sale.” Is that the subtitle?? No, I guess not. There is actually a shorter subtitle at the top. Then why in the world…
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“I Remember Laura” – Books & Music
Laura loved singing school. It began with singing scales to limber up the voices. Then Mr. Clewett taught them a simple exercise, the first in the book. He gave them the pitch with his tuning fork again and again, until all their voices chimed in with it. …on the way home Laura sang. “Oh childhood’s joys are very great, A-swingin’…
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The Workbasket – December 1950
The December 1950 issue of The Workbasket had a new cover design. I wondered if this was the first month for it, or if it debuted the previous month? I am missing the November issue. Still no color, though. And notice the 15 cents price! Check out this ad for a convertible shopping bag See how it unfolds into a…
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The Workbasket – September 1950
I don’t know if anyone else is enjoying these nearly as much as I am… but for your viewing pleasure I present the September 1950 issue of The Workbasket! Such a pretty crocheted tablecloth. It was patterns like this one that initially caught my eye in this stack of magazines. This pattern, on the other hand, looks just a little…
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“I Remember Laura” June Blog-A-Thon
For the month of June I will be participating in a once-a-week blog-a-thon celebrating Laura Ingalls Wilder hosted by Miss Sandy at Quill Cottage. I have enjoyed the Little House books since I was very young. Before I could read my mother read them to us as bedtime stories, one chapter a night. I couldn’t stand having to wait until…
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The Workbasket – October 1950
This week’s Workbasket magazine is from October 1950. The cover features a “Hairpin Lace Vanity Set.” Interestingly enough, I have recently learned to make hairpin lace. A friend of mine gave me a hairpin loom and showed me how to do it, after I admired an afghan she had made. I won’t be able to make the vanity set, though,…
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The Workbasket – July 1950
This past weekend, while out garage-saling, I “scored” a stack of 25 vintage Workbasket magazines from the early 1950s for $2! At the time I was thinking there might be some vintage crochet patterns I would enjoy making… but there is, oh, so much more! Just so many “precious” things, I have to share. Here is the cover of the…
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Decora-a-Tea
This week’s theme on the Gracious Hospitali-Tea Blog-a-thon is to share ideas and pictures that incorporate tea and/or tea themes into home decor. Now, as you no doubt realize, my home is not all put together yet from our move… and my decorating is not complete. (But then, is it ever?) But here are a few pictures that go along…
