Today we’ve come to the last of the Colonial Kitchen Set Days of the Week patterns. As I sit here, I’m imagining the quiet of a house pre-electricity sitting quietly having a cup of tea and the only sound being the tick tock, tick tock of the kitchen clock. Perhaps also Saturday was the day of the week when the…
Today’s kitchen item would have been essential in order to grind the coffee beans to make the coffee in the pot that I shared on the 12th of January. Since buying our new electric peculator, we’ve started grinding our own coffee beans in order to have a courser grind of coffee than is available already ground. Luckily we’ve got an…
Today’s addition to the Colonial Kitchen set is a pair of handheld bellows to introduce air into the coal or wood fire to get it rekindled or increase the heat being produced. This pattern is available as a pdf to download here.
When I saw this I had to smile because to me this style of coffee pot is only vintage in the sense that this style of coffee pot has been around for at least a century or more. For years, Dave and I perked our coffee in a pot just like this. And my parents still use one to…
To start the year off on Vintage Embroidery Monday, for the next seven weeks I’ll be sharing a Days of the Week set of embroidery patterns for what the Workbasket pattern calls a Colonial Kitchen Set. But you’ll see that the patterns are all for common household items that would have been found around almost every house before the advent…
If you’re looking for a change of pace now that Christmas is over and we prepare for the New Year these folk art flowers could be embroidered in satin stitch in bright colors onto a dark background. The pattern could also be printed onto a plastic sheet and used to create stencils. This pattern is available as a pdf to…
On Workbasket pattern page #92, there were four small Christmas patterns. I thought my readers might like to have them in different sizes so Dave enlarged them. Each pattern I share for the month of December leading up to Christmas will include three sizes of the same design. Today I’m sharing the candy canes with bows. The pattern for the…