This is going to be the quickest Retro Monday ever. It’s 10.15pm and I need to get up at 5.30am – so I need to type fast and get to bed. Today I’m just going to tease you with another front cover from Australian Home Journal. This one is from April 1957…
Australiana
Retro Monday – Australian Home Journal February 1958
Today’s Retro Monday is nothing more than an opportunity to drool over the front cover of the February 1958 edition of Australian Home Journal. I only have a handful of these magazines, and I’m lucky enough to have copies with the original paper dress patterns intact. This means that I have patterns…
Cosy Koalas
It was fifteen months ago that I first posted about a 1936 pattern for a koala tea cosy. Although he looks nothing like the picture on the pattern, he turned out quite well. I decided to make him a little branch of flowering gum to hold onto and stitch it to his paws….
Retro Monday – Koala Tea Cosy
Today’s Retro Monday features my oldest knitting pattern book. It’s dated 2 November, 1936 which makes it 77 years old. It kind of smells 77 years old too. Still, its in pretty good condition for something printed on newsprint quality paper (apart from the colour cover which is on a denser, satin…