Birdie love

Over at Sweetbee's Vintage Finds, B was wondering why there's so many embroidery designs with birds on them. Maybe they're popular for pillowcase designs as they're a bit more lively than flowers, and are always sweet and cute. The only answer I can come up with is that everyone loves wee birds...well, I know I do. So to add to the birdie love, here's a pattern from an unknown maker. I suspect this was originally a Laura Wheeler design, as the style and typeface are identical. I'm guessing this one is from the 60's or later, and came out after Laura Wheeler Designs were no more? If anyone knows, please update me.

In the meantime, here's some birdies for "towels, scarves, pillowcases or other household linen." Click on the pic for the full size, and then save, resize, print and stitch away!

Doll accessories

doll, originally uploaded by drewzel.

Here's a nice little pattern from 'Woman and Home' magazine of 1947. Use felt to make some little clothes for someone's favourite dolly. I really like the little booties, and think you could easily resize and adapt them to make cute baby shoes. Click on the picture and "all sizes" in Flickr to print and read instructions.

Donkeys from Vogart 133

2 donkeys, originally uploaded by drewzel.

Here's a scan of them, for your stitching pleasure!

Little Burro

As I'm having a picture day today (well that's what it's turned into) I thought I'd share one I've done.
Further examination of my 'South of the Border' pattern revealed two unused donkey transfers. So I decided to use one for stiching up a redwork "penny square" for a swap I'm in. Much cuteness!

Chicken and Rooster Tea Towel

Chicken and Rooster Tea Towel, originally uploaded by colonial stitcher.

Further to this post, Colonial Stitcher has stitched up the very cute (yes, you know I love chickens!) on a gorgeous tea towel. She sells her work through Etsy - check out her other stitched creations here. (I was going to buy it, but I found her store about 30 minutes after I was told I had to get 4 new tyres for my car, and my bank account shrivelled up.) Anyway...

Yay! I love to see what people make with the patterns.

Brunkhorst Family Heirlooms

Brunkhorst Family Heirlooms, originally uploaded by Gigi & Big Red.

Here's some nice eye candy for you, this is a pic of Gigi's linen collection. Gigi says "My mother-in-law handed all of these gorgeous linens down to me from her two aunties. They will be cherished."
Lucky girl! I think we should all start stitching gorgeous things to either start or add to our own family collections. Alas, I don't have any handed down linens, but my collection of "adoptees" is always growing!