I just realized – upon reading yet another blog about going dryer-free for a year – that it’s been at least eight years since I last used a dryer. Yes, that’s eight full years of total year-round air-drying. Or maybe even more, I really can’t remember it’s been so long. And this is in Seattle,… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Vintage
Vintage 70s Granny Square Millefleurs Maxi Skirt Crochet Pattern
For your Boho crocheting pleasure, presenting another vintage 70s granny square creation! This is the Millefleuers Skirt – for elegant evenings at home or in faraway places. It is a long slim maxi skirt crocheted in a palette of colors. The squares grow smaller from lower edge to waist because three sizes of crochet hooks… Read more »
It’s a Hydrangea Explosion Around Here!
I have a treasured blue hydrangea that sits right outside my home office window. Some years it blooms too little and too late, but this year it has bloomed rather early and rather explosively! I had cut it way back this winter, and it looked so barren and stark for so long. But with all… Read more »
Groovy 70s Granny Square Jacket Crochet Pattern
There seems to be a resurgence of the ubiquitous 70s crocheted granny square items lately! I’ve notice several vintage hand-crocheted granny jackets being bid up to hundreds of dollars on eBay. Here is a great crochet pattern from 1973 for a “Out-of-the-Blue” Jacket. Multicolored squares edged in blue make a charming night-or-day cover up. Triangular… Read more »
Happy Independence Day!
Today, July 4th, is a day of great celebration for America. It commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from Great Britain. So while I do find the the interminable loud fireworks a bit annoying, it is what our founding fathers had in mind to celebrate this day…. Read more »
Ecstatic 1930s Housewives Hang Their Laundry!
It seems that laundry was a particularly joy-inducing task in 1939, as depicted in this cute ad for Rinso soap. The neighborhood ladies are frolicking around the clothesline, while an onlooking older woman comments, “Looks like the whole town’s going wild about the NEW 1940 RINSO and the richer suds it give in our hard… Read more »
I'm Marilyn, and I'm obsessed with vintage clothing, thrift stores, clotheslines, and Chanel. Welcome to my down-to-earth world!