Long story short.. E sneaked up behind Mike and bounced a bunny hand on his shoulder saying "SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK" in a deep scary voice, and Mike said "That's one angry rabbit." at which point she put the bunny ears on the duck hand and said "Squack!"
So of course I had to do it too. Within a couple seconds all you could hear was duck bunnies saying "Squack Squack!"
My family is nuts. But I like it that way.
Recently posted at Don't Eat the Paste- a tutorial on making PDFs using Open Office Writer to create circle tags (or whatever you need to create a 300 dpi pdf of). You can find that here.
At Beadwork at BellaOnline.com, some tips on following a peyote pattern, you can find that here.
Today we headed up to Value Village for their half price Labor Day sale, and EEEK! It was so crowded. Seriously kind of scary. Fortunately, most of those people were looking for way different things than we were looking for so we weren't too crowded until we got to checkout.
I found 3 kids records, a vintage issue of McCalls Needlework I didn't have from 1978, one craft book from 1973, and one from 1977. Happy vintage crafty Shala!
I also got 3 vintage slips, the 1960's tricot-y bias cut ones? Very happy Shala. But a lot of people get all squicky about vintage lingerie, even slips. Not me. I like vintage slips very much thank you.
E and I found the coat she needed for her Halloween costume, and she was so thrilled as soon as we were through check out she ripped off the tag, and wore it for the rest of our little outing. Ick. It's like 65 which is a heat wave swimming weather here. And she's walking around in a black overcoat. She also got 2 more button down shirts, and a book from the 80s on making teddy bears. I told her she was a thrift store queen. I love that she likes thrift stores. She has her own style, and lately it's been button down shirts and ties, which are dead cheap and so very green to buy used at thrift stores.
After that we headed to Wal-Mart to get some necessities. E is running low on her allergy medication, and it's been sunny enough she's been super sneezy girl. We also got her some craft supplies. Home again home again.

The last crochet or knit pattern from Star Gift Book No. 150, the rest are embroidery patterns or yarn crafts and I'm still deciding if I'm going to post them for completion or not.
( Fish Mobile )
I think this pattern would be cute in thread for phone charms and such.

Almost done. One crochet pattern left after this, and the rest are yarn crafts, appropriate for
children to do with your help, and for grandparents to ooh and aww over. This pattern made me nuts, and I edited just a bit because it kept changing how it expressed the stitches, sometimes from one row to the next the spacing in the abbreviation would change. Other than that, I didn't edit the original text.
( Gift Doily )

As promised. I even colorized the picture so you could get an idea how they look colorized. The reversed colors for the matched set, I didn't do. But I'm sure you'll be able to imagine. And shudder. Be afraid. Be very very afraid.
( Crocheted Potholders )

Also from Star Gift Book No. 150.
( fluffy crochet! )

Well... the spine finally tore on it. I knew it would. So I'm going to try and get the whole thing transcribed in the next couple of weeks.
Of course.. I haven't shown you the horror yet. That will have to wait. I'll post it on Friday the 13th, it deserves a special day all it's own. It really truly does get worse than the odd hand puppet on the cover. But today's project is pretty. I think I'll need to see if I can graph out the pattern in international crochet symbol at some point, because following it in my mind in the written form made me a bit dizzy.
( Sunburst Rose Doily )

I spent today mostly reading, cooking, and working on my scarf, I'm halfway through the second round, and it will be 4 rounds total. (strip method donchaknow)

I also spent a little while transcribing a couple new patterns. This time, knit patterns. The first one is fairly wearable. The second, really customizable, but for the most part? Not recommending the customizations they did. Well.. E loves one, and I like one. Can you guess which ones we like? But I think it would look too cute with embroidered flowers and rick rack, because rick rack makes everything look better.
( No date in this book )
It doesn't say, but the Loops variation is the one you need the crochet hook for. And check out the flowers hat! Yep. Those are pom pom flowers. It sort of reminds me of those swimming caps with plastic flowers attached.
Did you guess which variation I liked and which one E likes?

I love this stole pattern. It's done strip method, and has a flower-y look to it.
It's from 1952.
( Barbara Stole )

From my vintage book stash. These are 3 edgings from Star Book No. 81, Edgings which has crochet and tatted edging for handkerchiefs, pillows and towels.
A good modern use for edging patterns is using a medium to worsted weight yarn and doing lengths as scarves or edging a scarf or stole in a sport weight.
( here they are. )
Of course.. I really should do more of the disembodied head patterns!

I need to make myself a vintage crochet icon.
Well, in those patterns I posted yesterday, at least one other person noticed the extremely odd photography of the scarf/hat patterns. Heads. Just heads. No bodies.
I've been fighting this urge to scan the creepiest picture in that book and making an "I ain't got no body" icon.
I was showing Mike the pictures in the book yesterday, and he wants me to scan them and offer them up for captioning. He was pretty creeped out. The worst are two pictures of kids in hats with matching purses. He asked if that's where the heads lived when they weren't out exploring. One of them has this really scary creepy smile.
There are also sweater patterns. So there are also women missing everything from the waist down. Seems made to photoshop into mermaids, or to use for paper crafting and make cards with big floofy fabric skirts. Or maybe mermaids.

( cut to save the uninterested )
*grins* I was vaguely debating resolving to post a craft a day next year. Scanning out of my vintage treasure could do a lot of those days!