Vintage Craft – A Garden in Your Kitchen

Ever since Danielle exposed me to the wonderful world of vintage craft magazines, I’ve enjoyed challenging myself with vintage-style projects. One I’ve finally got around to doing are these decorative flower dishcloths for my kitchen (I already have them hanging on my kitchen wall!). The pattern came from this tiny magazine from Coats & Clark’s Jiffy Gifts Book No.141. The pattern is at an intermediate level since it requires you to be familiar with half-double, treble, and double treble crochet stitches, but overall, if you feel fairly comfortable with theses stitches, they’re quite easy and fast to stitch up. I definitely recommend trying out this project if you’d like to spruce up your kitchen!

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Vintage Craft Progress

Part of my end-of-June projects was to create another vintage craft*. I decided to use a 1970’s pattern from the McCall’s Crochet magazine series (Book 4).

I chose to crochet the panda bear and thought what a cute gift it would be for my friend’s upcoming baby shower. 

After finding out the color scheme of the baby’s room, I decided to use almond, cream, and honey dew-colored yarn instead of black and white. I’m still following the exact pattern, but  I decided to have the bear wear a shirt. The pics above show the body parts I’ve completed so far(JIC – head, torso, arms, and ears!). I’ll have more pics of my vintage-style bear later this week! Sue

*If you interested in knowing more about the Vintage Craft Challenge, click on the button in my side bar! 

 

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Vintage Craft Challenge

For the last two days, I’ve been fervently working on finishing up this vintage bunny pattern that is near and dear to my heart (read about it here). I was inspired to create the bunny thanks to Danielle Thompson’s Vintage Craft challenge.

When I began the task of recreating this bunny there was one bitty problem – the instructions are for knitting and, well, I’m not too keen on knitting. Not that I don’t know how to knit because I taught myself awhile back, but I just never got used to the knitting needles (my hands always felt awkward).
At first I was bit discouraged but decided then and there that I would translate the pattern into crochet stitches.

Easier said than done because I had never done such a thing before. After using my bf’s bunny as a model and many stumbles and fumbles, I finally got the hang of it.

I’m happy with the outcome. Even though my bunny isn’t the spitting image of its original, I think it captures that vintage feel. I still have one gnawing question – since I didn’t go by the actual vintage pattern, can my bunny still be considered vintage craft? Hhhhmmmmm . . . Sue

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