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From: coloradoanni
Date: 04-29-2004, 07:03 PM (1 of 10)
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Today is/was "digging through boxes" day*! I found some things... I found a first edition copy of "Golden Hands EMBROIDERY Pattern Book". I had it in a box from last year for flea market items; glad I dug it out*! What a CooL Nostalgic Book! Anyone have it? Random House publishers, 1972. It's close to "mag" size, only thicker. If you have a bookshelf, look for the Hot Raspberry Pink edge (HaHa-- the background of the book cover is hot pink*) > LoTs of retro: Zodiac signs, flowers, butterflies, and BIG HuGe Flowers to embroider*! Handbags, pillows, spreads & wall-hangings, you name it! Also an alphabet in there...really SuPeR book -really PLEASED that I rescued it from my "fleas" ! HaHa--this thread is for RetRo- EmbroiderY. Want to talk about CoLoRS????? WoW--Far OuT*!!! Annie/ Colorado/ "stuck in the 60s"
ScRaPs!*sTuDio
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User: coloradoanni
Member since: 04-24-2004 Total posts: 50 
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From: Magot
Date: 05-03-2004, 03:14 PM (2 of 10)
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My Lord, I remember Golden Hands! I have an absolute classic Good Housekeepers Mothercraft Manual for 1958!!!!! The childrens clothes patterns are SCARY - I bought when my librabry was having a sale and Now I Know What My Mother Did to Me! Is it any wonder I am the way I am? Mind you I have still knitted some of the baby clothes for small persons recently - classic sailor boy coat for 6 month old, ahhhh! love and kisses, Jan
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User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626 
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From: coloradoanni
Date: 05-04-2004, 12:13 AM (3 of 10)
Retro / 1958*? Your mother "sewed"these scary clothes? My mother didn't sew, but there are cetain things I remember HAVING to wear that were EXTREmelY UNcomfortable in the 50s, especially in grade school--this has nothing to do with brassieres or such--I just remember being so uncomfortable in thick "leggings" in winter/ anklets that kept slipping doen inside my shoes, also slips?---> cotton straps that weren't adjustable, that kept slipping down under my dresses or sweaters....around my upper arms....UG G g hh**!
ScRaPs!*sTuDio
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User: coloradoanni
Member since: 04-24-2004 Total posts: 50
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From: coloradoanni
Date: 05-04-2004, 12:21 AM (4 of 10)
A little NoTe to add about the bright colors in this book and other retro sewing books: My daughter told me this weekend that the absolutely NeW Fashion CoLoR* for Spring is HoT PiNk, or Raspberry Pink ~ LiKe, GrOOVy --and FaR OuT/ reaLLy a "BlaSt" how History Repeats Itself*!! 
ScRaPs!*sTuDio
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User: coloradoanni
Member since: 04-24-2004 Total posts: 50
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From: Magot
Date: 05-04-2004, 03:28 AM (5 of 10)
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My Mum didn't sew either, but ahh I rmember the Blue Serge Gym Knickers , complete with very tight elestic. I looked like an except from St Trinians! For those of you who do not have a classic British Film education lok here http://www.uq.net.au/~zzdmcana/StTrinians/about-st-trins.html argh! My school! coloradoanni, it was more the way children were brought up according to this book - waving them over potties at 6 weeks old??? love and kisses, Jan
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User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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From: MariLynnTX
Date: 05-04-2004, 12:53 PM (6 of 10)
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I have never seen that book, actually too modern for an old lady raised in the 30's and 40's. My mother sewed a lot and very beautifully, but I was a tomboy and loved to climb trees. We had a platform up in a backyard tree and I would climb up with my book and read in our long Texas summers. Mother would bring my brother (19 months younger than I) and me in about 3 pm, bathe us and dress us up nicely and say, "Now go out and play till your father comes home, but don't get dirty." She would have my hair in long curls and a huge satin hair-bow in my hair. Later I would come in, my hair-bow lost, my hem pulled loose in places, and a button lost off my Roman sandals, facing the inevitable switching. I was the fastest runner on our block and could turn a dozen cartwheels in one square foot of space, but what my mother wanted was a ladylike little girl with long curls, a hair-bow, intact hems and NO buttons lost off my Roman sandals! I was a big disappointment to her. She didn't like it when I was older and sang in night clubs. She was relieved when I was doing calligraphy and she liked it when I was making costumes and bridal dresses, but I let my daughters wear jeans and T-shirts, like everyone else their ages. MariLynntx
Life is a song...we give it harmony or dissonance.
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User: MariLynnTX
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From: coloradoanni
Date: 05-04-2004, 01:00 PM (7 of 10)
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Originally posted by MariLynnTX I have never seen that book, actually too modern for an old lady raised in the 30's and 40's. My mother sewed a lot and very beautifully, but I was a tomboy and loved to climb trees. We had a platform up in a backyard tree and I would climb up with my book and read in our long Texas summers. Mother would bring my brother (19 months younger than I) and me in about 3 pm, bathe us and dress us up nicely and say, "Now go out and play till your father comes home, but don't get dirty." She would have my hair in long curls and a huge satin hair-bow in my hair. Later I would come in, my hair-bow lost, my hem pulled loose in places, and a button lost off my Roman sandals, facing the inevitable switching. I was the fastest runner on our block and could turn a dozen cartwheels in one square foot of space, but what my mother wanted was a ladylike little girl with long curls, a hair-bow, intact hems and NO buttons lost off my Roman sandals! I was a big disappointment to her. She didn't like it when I was older and sang in night clubs. She was relieved when I was doing calligraphy and she liked it when I was making costumes and bridal dresses, but I let my daughters wear jeans and T-shirts, like everyone else their ages. MariLynntx === HaHa Haaaaah*!!! HeeHeee --What a GREAT Story~!! I wonder what happened to all of those sandal buttons~~???? ScRaPs!*sTuDio
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User: coloradoanni
Member since: 04-24-2004 Total posts: 50
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From: MariLynnTX
Date: 05-04-2004, 01:33 PM (8 of 10)
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Maybe they are in some antique button collctions! I was 77 in April, so in the early 30's I was between 5 and 10, so they are over 50 years old so can qualify as antiques. I have had a rather interesting life, I reckon. Seven children, a rather stormy marriage for 54 years, night club singer, piano teacher, sewing teacher, did calligraphy for years, did custom sewing (bridal, costumes, restoring vintage clothing, worked for lawyers, and some architects, worked in politics, have written a poetry book (self-published), wrote a cookbook for my kids and am now revising it to sell on the internet, wrote a free-motion machine embroidery book with patterns and instructions and I still sell it on the internet through sewing lists mostly, like SWN, and now I am a widow and say I am retired. I wrote a lot of articles for SWN which are archived here as MariLynn's Embroidery. I have 16 grandchildren, from age 30 down to 7 months! I read a lot, still practice singing every day, and have become quite lazy! On my 76th birthday last year, I learned to scuba dive. MariLynn
Life is a song...we give it harmony or dissonance.
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User: MariLynnTX
Member since: 08-13-2001 Total posts: 256 |
From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 05-05-2004, 11:44 AM (9 of 10)
The kind of Retiree that I most admire.. ! ! You Go, Girl ! ! ! 
Sew With Love
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User: LeapFrog Libby
Member since: 05-01-2002 Total posts: 2022 
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From: coloradoanni
Date: 05-05-2004, 12:55 PM (10 of 10)
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Originally posted by LeapFrog Libby The kind of Retiree that I most admire.. ! ! You Go, Girl ! ! ! === **DiTTO**
ScRaPs!*sTuDio
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User: coloradoanni
Member since: 04-24-2004 Total posts: 50
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