Sunday : odds and ends

This isn't today's pattern, but I found these this morning, so I thought I'd share. These little designs, Stitchy friends, come from loose odds and ends in my pattern collection.
Weldon's spring flowers:

A rose is a rose is a rose:

And a butterfly and stylised flower design:

Sorry the quality isn't very good, they're all quite old and crusty, and the Weldon's one was yellow ink, so the scanner wasn't happy. I think someone else has shared the same or similar flowers from Weldon's too, let me have a look and get back to you.

Saturday : things for kidlets

Today's designs come from a sheet that is green ink on coarse cream paper, and again, I don't know the maker. It's a set of designs for baby bibs or children's clothes, including scottie dogs, cutesy things, and some nursery rhyme characters.

There's the Old Woman who lived in the Shoe:



The cross stitch Express:

And the three bears (Goldilocks is nowhere to be seen!) looking rather despondent, yet sinister:

Again I'm only guessing, but I'd say 1930's for this one. I'd recommend stitching the shoe lady for maximum cuteness, as those bears are creeping me out!

Friday: little birdies

This one is a detail from a larger picture that won't fit on my scanner, so until I sort that, enjoy some wee birdie cuteness! [I don't know the maker, it looks like single use blue ink on tissue paper and I'd guess from the 30's.]

PS. Yes Claire, this one's for you!

Thursday : disturbed animal potholders

In direct contrast to yesterday's happy clown buddies, today's animals are all a bit shocked as they realise the evil intentions of humans. This is another Workbasket one, as far as I know, there's no number or distinguishing marks on it anywhere, and it's red ink on that low-quality thick paper. Intended for potholders, there's a panicked pig, a kittah eyeing a wee birdie, a rabbit making a nasty realisation, an escaping duck, a very worried dog, and a chicken who seems to be too dumb to be disturbed about being fried and is advertising "young fries". (?) Oh, the strange, twisted sense of humour of the pattern designers! Actually it's all very tongue in cheek, and the animals are all extremely cute.

Poor bunny though, from Easter icon to cook-in-the-pot. Oh the humanity!

Wednesday - Just clowin' around

Okay stitchy friends, a confession from me : I don't like clowns or circuses. I know there's lots of delightful Enid Blyton type stories of hours of happy fun under the Big Top, but I don't think the animals want to be there, and clowns are just disturbing. When I was a wee stitchy I wasn't scared of clowns so much as my response was "What's the point? You look stupid and you're not funny." (Maybe I was just a brat though.) However, people swallowing knives, magicians, fat ladies with beards, strong men, people eating fire, and flying through the air are fine by me, if they all want to be there...unlike the elephants and lions. Anyway, enough belly-aching from me. And don't even start me on "dancing bears" and the like.

But I know I'm not alone in my mistrust of clowns...so I was pleasantly suprised when I unfolded this Workbasket sheet and found happy, non-sinister clowns, all drawn with a 1960's sense of joie de vivre. There's about 6 clown designs, intended for quilt blocks. So here's today's pattern, where Happy the clown is trying to "tame" Mr. Lion, but we can tell by the drawing that Mr. Lion is just humouring him, playing along for his own amusement. Roar! (Or possibly Yawn! He looks like that sort of lion.)

Tuesday - Off to School

Today's transfer is from Workbasket, and designed as pot holders. There's Johnny and Suzie (well I don't know their real names, that's just what I've called them - actually that's a bit dull isn't it? Hmm, okay) - there's Eugene and Hortense off to their pretty little school house. Eugene is a bit of a crawler and has taken an apple for the teacher, but as Hortense is just so danged cute already, she doesn't need to bribe teacher with fruity offerings. Enjoy...and remember to let me know if you stitch these ones up.

PS. Grr, noticing some spam creeping into my comments. Obviously I don't need to tell you stitchy friends to not click on any suss links, and I'm deleting the comments as I find them. It might have to force me to put comment moderation on, but for now, see how we go.

More stitchy fun!

Hey stitchy friends, hope you had a great easter, and didn't smudge choccy on your stitching! Check out a week of embroidery transfers, over at Meet Me at Mike's, Floresita is sharing stitchy goodness.
I'm going to try and play along, but I think I'll give you a single pattern a day rather than my usual featured pattern and rave. Okay, off to search the Workbasket pile for some designs for you.



As it's Easter Monday, here's a fluffy wabbit from Workbasket sheet #80. He was originally designed for a baby's bib, as there's a lambsy as well, but I think he's more wascally than cutesy.