It remains the standard to which I hold all other craft books - and why not, it has an impressive array of actually quite cool projects (for a 70s craft book):
The end papers
Pipe cleaner dolls and funky furniture. Work it pipe cleaner dolls, work it!
Cute little mouse - have a vague feeling I might have made this one
What a self-satisfied looking cat!
These hints are so very true and I love the illustrations
Hazel found the book when we were back at my parents place last Christmas, so it returned to New Zealand 35+ years later, and yesterday she asked if we could make something.
Not the clothing though, she said that it was too "old-fashioned", and I was forced to admit that the market for very short dirndle skirts and head scarves is a bit limited these days.
She wanted to make Baby Billy
And so we did! Except he's now a she and called Baby Rose
Oddly enough, for all the modern aesthetic we applied, mostly courtesy of the Wee Wonderfuls Book, Baby Rose looks startlingly like another product of the 70s, a Muppet! Specifically this one:
*My Learn To Sew Book by Janet Barber. Illustrated by Belinda Lyon. Hamlyn 1972. ISBN 0 600 35910 7
This is a wonderful post!! Those illustrations are so familiar (I was a little girl in the 70s, too)...so much fun to recreate these timeless (some of them at least) patterns from your childhood with your own little girl!
ReplyDeleteLove the book, love Baby Rose! (Love the Muppets too!)
ReplyDeleteThe illustrations in the book as a whole are great - dated and yet not dated in a way! Perhaps it's because the 70s are back in fashion again :) And the 80s... wasn't once enough?
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