Join me as I knit my way through the Useful Articles in "Weldon's Practical Needlework", published by Interweave Press.
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.
Monday, March 5, 2012
More Pictures of the Lady's Undervest
Curvy niece Pam modeled the Lady's Undervest for me this weekend:
she's such a cutie :-)
I think the final consensus is that this is a warm but lightweight sweater. And that a corset which puts one's breasts in the properly perky position would improve the fit.
Yes, the boob increases are not very subtly designed, are they! But a lovely piece :D
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