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Crochet Tidy from Godey’s Lady’s Book

I decided to try to make this tidy/doily from Godey’s Lady’s Book, September 1860.  It was a real challenge but ended up being easier than I thought it would be.  That’s after trying and retrying many times and changing the yarn!  Anyway here is a pic.  Click the picture to link to the pattern at a new site, […]

Vintage crochet Baby woollen shoes

Astarte, in the Qustions and Answers section of an 1884 magazine, Little Folks  A Magazine for the Young,
sends the following directions, in answer to W. M.’s question as to
how to make a pair of baby’s woollen shoes, suitable for a bazaar:—

“One ounce of white Berlin wool.

A chain of thirty-four stitches;

double-crochet into this for […]

Vintage Lace made on Point Lace Braid

 
Fig. 458. Lace made on point lace braid.
Materials: Fil d’Alsace D.M.C Nos. 30 to 50, or Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C No. 80, white[A] and Point Lace braid.
In this first round you make: 1 chain, 1 half-treble, 12 trebles *, 1 half-treble, 1 chain, 1 single on the 4th chain; 3 chain, 1 single on the […]

Vintage Crocheted Butterfly Bow

 
Source:  Home Needlework, December, 1915 

Vintage Crocheted Tumbler Doily

source: Home Needlework, December 1915

Vintage Crochet Pattern Nightingale with Colored Border

Crochet for Baby
Nightingale with Colored Border by Mrs. C. J. Matthews

 

pg. 10, Home Needlework Magazine, October, 1915 Design No. 1510-25;2 skeins white and one skein of pink or blue saxony, and a steel crochet hook No. 3.  Pink or Blue ribbon, 2 ½ yards. st/s=stitche/s dt=Double treble (Having loop on hook, thread over twice, insert hook […]