Long story made short, word has gotten around at work that I am a knitter and several people now have given me hand me down yarn. Usually from a mother or grandmother that has passed, or that will shortly be moving into a new location.
Today however, I was given hand me down patterns and needles... a LOT of needles.
Lookit um all! There are several duplicates but still. That is a LOT of needles!
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| For reference, the needles on the right are size 6. The ones on the left have no size, | only a 1' dia! |
There was some more vintage yarn as well.
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| I'll try to get a better pic of this one once I have a chance to flatten it under some books. |
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| Date on this paper is 1978! |
Mens vest pattens, how sheak.
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| The price on this one is 35cents! |
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| And a closeup of our dapper lads. |
And look at this fine foxy lady, so couture, stylish and fashionable. 
Baby afghan with I think what is meant to be a Snoopy doll? He's kinda creepy looking...
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| Scary.... |
And here we have yet another fashionable vest.
And the staple of any knitter or crocheter library, afghans.
But this is the REAL treasure, handwritten/typed patterns.
So yeah, I was lucky enough to be handed some real treasures today. I've also promised to scan all of these pattens and give a copy of the pdf's to the coworker that gave me all of this. She told me as she handed over the bag that there were a lot of memories of her mom knitting these things. That said, I am MORE then happy to preserve them for her any way I can.
Oh yeah, and this is the bag all of this came in.
Sadly, I do not get to keep the bag.
