Gustav Stickley and Smocking

What does Gustav Stickley and smocking have to do with each other? The Craftsman Magazine from 1906 ran an article about the art quality of smocking. You can find the article here on page 676

This is a fascinating magazine. Search the term HOME DEPARTMENT and you will find the articles within the magazine on how Stickley imagined that a home should be artfully designed and decorated.

Enjoy, Debby

1916 Knit shrug pattern

1916 knitting pattern for a knit shrug or Sleeve Shawl as it is described in the article.

This is posted on Google Books. Scroll down to the bottom of the page that loads below.




or here is a clipped image of the pattern on Google Books




Enjoy, Debby

Knitting samplers and free pattern

Like other handicrafts, knitters can create a sampler of knitting stitches to display their skills or merely to document a stitch. Many knitters did this in the 19th century to document and preserve stitches they had learned or obtained from other knitters.

Here is an example of a sampler at the Powerhouse Museum:

Knitting sampler, 1876

Franklin Habit wrote a great article at Knitty.com and offers his version of Miss Lambert's Lace Sampler.

The lace patterns used for this sampler were taken from My Knitting Book (1843) by Frances Lambert available on Google Books.

It makes a nice scarf!

Enjoy, Debby