Vintage Home Arts - Crochet & Knitting Patterns and Cookbooks

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love all the home arts; sewing, cooking, making a house a home! I especially love learning about how our mothers and grandmothers learned homemaking skills and created things. I started a collection of vintage crochet and knitting patterns, and also antique cookbooks, and decided to combine my work with my hobby. I restore and reprint books and single patterns and offer them for others to use and enjoy as well.

Vintage & Antique Crochet and Knitting Patterns and Cookbooks

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intage patterns make today's fashions, and in most cases are not only a bargain, but superior in design and style. It's only up to your own creative imagination to turn a black and while photo into a unique masterpiece in living color.

The Background of Vintage Home Arts

I started by selling my patterns and books on eBay. You'll see just a few listings below. I'm working on a website at VintageHomeArts.com , and I've opened a mall shop at MainStreetMallsOnline.com. I currently have about 1,000 vintage patterns listed, with thousands more waiting in the wings. Some of the categories are: vintage baby patterns, women's designer fashions, dolls, toys, doilies and motifs, florals, hats and bags and novelties. And of course whole pattern books and cookbooks.

If you have a request for a pattern, ask me, I probably have it. I could use about five workers cleaning and restoring patterns full time! Trouble is I can't pay them. So I plug along and try to remember that this started as a hobby.

If you're a crocheter, knitter or into old fashioned cooking, check out my items. They're hand selected with care.

~Nancy

Patterns are available from eBay as printed copies mailed promptly upon payment.

For patterns delivered to you immediately in PDF format, visit VintageHomeArts.com.

How Adorable is This

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or a very Vogue doggie, knitted houndstooth pattern for your hound. Check out this free dog sweater pattern from Vogue.

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hoose knitting or crocheting, or both! You'll be amazed at the items you can make right from the start! Take a moment to see the old 1954 fashion newsreel, a real blast from the past.

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ne lens couldn't hold all the specific details for unique vintage home arts topics. There is a growing collection of vintage pattern and cooking lenses for those who specialize in just dog sweaters or baby caps or old fashioned candy making. Prom jackets from vintage patterns are very popular, as are hats, bags and lingerie.

From crocheted baby hats to the secrets of candy making.

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elow is just a sampling of the quality vintage crochet and knitting patterns and antique cookbook reprints I have for sale. Some of these books were in tatters before being scanned and painstakingly restored. I love rescuing these treasures and I hope you enjoy them.

Patterns are available from eBay as printed copies mailed promptly upon payment.

For patterns delivered to you immediately in PDF format, visit VintageHomeArts.com.

This colorful and three dimensional motif can be used for bedspreads, afghans, or any number of precious heirlooms.

Fast and easy, but the outcome speaks classy elegance. A fashion essential with many uses.

Cruise ship or local beach, love how you look in the sun.

This is just one of many knitted or crocheted dog sweaters. So popular.

I located this antique candymaking secrets book last year and it instantly became a best seller. Make your own old fashioned candy the way the experts did it 100 years ago . The recipes are surprisingly simple.

This is the pattern that people write to me about. "My mom made me one and I never thought I'd find the pattern!"

A New Jewelry Charm Piece for Avid Crocheters

Treat yourself, or give a gift. This unique crochet hook charm is available in yellow gold, white gold, sterling or gold plate.

Crochet Hook Charm by Rembrandt Charms

Another free pattern, courtesy of Vogue

I can think of a thousand uses for these hearts! Embellish a hat, bag, anything!

Free crocheted hearts pattern from Vogue.

eBay now only supports the hard copy versions of my patterns. To purchase digital PDF downloads, please visit VintageHomeArts.com.

A New Jewelry Charm Piece for Avid Knitters

Treat yourself, or give a gift. This unique knitter's charm is available in yellow gold, sterling or gold plate.

eBay now only supports the hard copy versions of my patterns. To purchase digital PDF downloads, please visit VintageHomeArts.com.

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