Great Resources
For Those Who Love Vintage
For Stitchers
For Stitchers
Emailed Vintage Patterns.com A wonderful assortment of affordable vintage patterns. These patterns can be easily downloaded. Women's vintage clothing, Shirley Temple doll clothes, and toddler collections are just some of the goodies. Stop by and visit to download their free mother-daughter apron pattern.
Craft Stylish A beginner or experienced stitcher will appreciate the directions of five different embroidery stitches found at Craft Stylish.
Needlecrafter Learn how to transfer a design to fabric by visiting the Needlecrafter.
For Collectors
The Kitchen Linens Book: Using Sharing, and Cherishing the Fabrics of Our Daily Lives by Ellyn Anne Geisel. Andrews, McMeel Publishing, LLC. 2009. (This guide gives great historical information, care and cleaning tips, and a free reproduction transfer.)
Sewing Palette Find a great history of transfer embroidery designs at the Sewing Palette.
Antique Pattern Library This site offers free access to needlework pattern books that are now in public domain. Books can be searched by needlework technique, date, title, and so on.
Vintage Tablecloth Lovers Club This club ($25.00 yearly fee) has a great and growing database of about 700 tagged and identified tablecloths.
Retro CleanThis easy-to-use cleaning powder has miraculously saved several purchased linens from becoming cutter cloth. It readily removes the yellowing many vintage linens have picked up over the years. I highly recommend it.
For Bloggers
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Brad Hooper's Writing Reviews for Readers' Advisory is an excellent read
for those bloggers who post book reviews.
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