Redemption at last!  Finally a reason why I saved scraps of wallpapers of rooms and houses past (and present).

A bottom drawer of my guest bath holds 40 (!) years of wallpaper scraps.

I loved the way they turned out.

I used this simple tutorial found here.    I cut the wallpaper a little larger than the folder and then folded it in half.  Outdoors I opened the folder and sprayed it with Alene's Tacky Spray Glue, then lined them up together and smoothed it out.  I used a rotary cutter and mat to cut along the straight sides of the folder edges and used scissors around the tab.

Very easy, very fast and very pretty!  But mostly I like that I'll be able to see my old wallpapers every day!

Kim Hargreaves pattern from Cherished.

I was wearing this sweater the other day while running errands with my husband.  We were walking in a neighborhood and he looked over at me and said, "Is that a new sweater?"  When I said yes, he asked if I had put it on Ravelry yet!  Ha ha, isn't that funny, he knows the word Ravelry.  Got to love that guy.

Rowan Alpaca Cotton, a Christmas gift from hubbie.

Anyway, I pulled out my phone and hopped onto a cute front porch step belonging to strangers and he took a few quick pictures.  I had to crop my head, my expressions were just awful.

All the pertinent information is here on my Ravelry page, naturally!

I have a box of embroidery transfer patterns collected over the years.  The transfer patterns are heat transferred to cotton fabric with a hot iron, then embroidered.  Used for baby quilts, table and bed linens, anywhere you would want to embellish with embroidery.  And really, what doesn't look better with a little embroidery embellishment?

A collection that spans over 70 years, my grandmother's, my great aunt's and mine.

Here are two relatively new ones.

Here are some older ones.

Most of them are Aunt Martha's transfers, still readily available.  I don't think she has discontinued one design, EVER!  JoAnn's Fabrics always has a great selection.

Here are some early 1930's Aunt Martha packets originally selling for .10 each.  They still stamp!

Some early McCalls dating from the 1940's and earlier.  Those dancing teacups crack me up.  25 cents each!

The price has gone up to 30 cents!

Vogart is no longer available, but found this great site.  Apparently they are pretty collectable.  Love these pin-up gals.

I have a few posts in mind that will showcase some of the quilts made with these.  So cute!  Hope that post will be in the next few weeks.  Also, numerous tea towels have been made, but those are mostly long gone to the rag bag or worse and made before I even thought of documenting my crafting with a photograph.  Anyway, I knew you would enjoy seeing these, they are really precious, don't you agree?

Happy crafting!

I bet I'll love wearing this as much as I love knitting it. 

Quiet Saturday morning.
Mad Men repeats and coffee.
Coastal Knits Bayside Pullover by Hannah Fettig.
Rowan Yorkshire Tweed 4-ply in Dessicated.

Bliss.