About Weldon's Practical Needlework

From Interweave Press:

About 1885, Weldon’s began publishing a series of fourteen-page monthly newsletters, available by subscription, each title featuring patterns and instructions for projects using a single technique.

About 1888, the company began to publish Weldon’s Practical Needlework, each volume of which consisted of twelve issues (one year) of several newsletters bound together with a cloth cover.

Each volume contains hundreds of projects, illustrations, information on little-known techniques, glimpses of fashion as it was at the turn of the twentieth century, and brief histories of needlework. Other techniques treated include making objects from crinkled paper, tatting, netting, beading, patchwork, crewelwork, appliqué, cross-stitch, canvaswork, ivory embroidery, torchon lace, and much more.

From 1999 through 2005, Interweave published facsimiles of the first twelve volumes of Weldon’s Practical Needlework.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Project 15: Gent's Balaclava Cap Finished

Done, and an easy pattern! The head is shaped with short rows, and there’s one seam, under the chin. The hood looked really small, but it is very stretchy and with blocking looks much bigger.
 
Now to find a gent with a handlebar mustache to model it for me :-)

Not sure if I'll "update" and publish the instructions for this, as the original is well-written and pretty straightforward.
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