I just realized last week that the images on my site are distorted using Internet Explorer 8. Apparently the problem has something to do with my WordPress theme, but so far I haven’t been able to figure it out. If you are using IE8 and the images are messed up, you can click on the “compatibility view” button just to the right of the address bar, and that should correct the distortion.
This is a wonderful catalog of all the embroidery patterns published by the Ladies Home Journal magazine in the early 1920s. I was not aware that LHJ published so many patterns — there are hundreds in this book — and the art deco illustrations accompanying the patterns are very cute. Although the book itself is quite large, the drawings of the patterns are smallish and it is difficult to get a decent scan.
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What a treasure trove of vintage patterns!
Thank you for telling us how to fix the distorted images. I had no idea it was so easy. 🙂
My favorite embroidery era…
Oooh, I love the ‘bubbly’ flowers in the baskets! What a great resource!
Martha, thank you so much for posting this. You probably don’t know this but I collect information on Sunbonnet patterns and I didn’t have this one. If you stumble upon anymore sunbonnets/overall babies would you gimme a holler? Someday maybe I will put together a data base for recognizing where they are from. I love this pattern!!! 😉 Thanks, MIckie
These are fantastic! The flowers climbing the trellis make me think of smocking (something ELSE I have always wanted to try).
These are so charming!