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.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

The handpainted yarn didn't work well as I suspected :-(  This yarn is NEVER going to find the perfect project!

I found 2 skeins of Rowan Kidsilk Haze in the stash so am using that and it's looking much better.  I couldn't find a single pair of #7 needles (and I'm sure I have at least a half dozen) so am using size 6.
The pattern is a pretty lace, sort of a leaf or "lozenge" design.


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