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THE BEST OFWORKBASKETMAGAZINE VINTAGE to VOGUE Knit and Crochet Classics
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www.krause.com Please call or write for our free catalog of publications. Our toll-free number to place an order or obtain a free catalog is 800-258-0929, or please use our regular business telephone 715-445-2214. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a critical article or review to be printed in a magazine or newspaper, or electronically transmitted on radio or television. Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2002105088 ISBN: 0-87349-421-0 eISBN: 978-1-44022-001-2 Compiled and edited by Deborah Hufford. A great needlecraft magazine joinspremiere yarn companies inrecreating classic fashionsfrom its last seven decades When we first approached leading yarn companies with our concept for this book, they were intrigued.

We had just purchased seventy years of archives from the worlds once largest needlecraft magazine, Workbasket. As we perused its pages from as far back as the 1930s, we imagined how fun it would be to do a book revisiting some of its classic fashions and invite the worlds most prestigious yarn companies to recreate the fashions. The yarn companies we approached were as excited as we were about the idea. At its apex in the 90s, Workbasket was the largest needlecraft magazine in the world. First launched in 1935 during the Depression, it began as a modest little newsprint pamphlet called, endearingly, Aunt Marthas Workbasket. As its tagline For Pleasure and Profit implied, it provided readers not only leisure but a means to supplement their meager family budgets during those lean times.

The diminutive digest became relied upon and loved by armies of avid needlecrafters over the decades. By the time Workbasket ceased publication in 1996, it had garnered a modern readership of many millions, and its end was mourned by generations. To peruse the pages of Workbasket magazines past seven decades is to experience time capsules in history. There were the jaunty hats and suits of the 1930s, and the bold, broad-shouldered 1940s fashions for women during World War II, when so many Workbasket readers were working in factories welding and riveting for the war effort. The 1950s brought new prosperity and prim fashions to go with it. The 60s and 70s brought Baby Boomer fashions thatsurprise! are the very styles being revived everywhere in retail stores today.

Whatever the decade, timeless classics abound in the pages of Workbasket and underscore the adage, everything old is new again. Thus, our title, Vintage to Vogue. One aspect of fashion, however, has changed dramaticallythe incredible array of textiles offered by todays yarn companies. The variety of colors, textures, weights, and styles available to needle-crafters today is nothing less than mind-boggling. No wonder needle-crafting is so popular again! We invited these premiere companiesCoats & Clark, Lion Brand, Berroco, Cascade, Tahki Stacy Charles, and Handy Hands, a leader in tattingto participate in this book, with spectacular results! Vintage to Vogue is packed with 35 projects of many styles, yarn types, and skill levels, all with complete, easy-to-follow directions. 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s TABLE OF CONTENTS, by Tahki Stacy Charles , by Berroco , by Coats & Clark , by Lion Brand , by Berroco , by Tahki Stacy Charles , by Cascade , by Lion Brand , by Cascade Yarns , by Tahki Stacy Charles , by Berroco , by Handy Hands , by Coats & Clark , by Coats & Clark , by Lion Brand , by Berroco , by Cascade Yarns , by Lion Brand , by Handy Hands , by Tahki Stacy Charles , by Lion Brand , by Coats & Clark , by Cascade Yarns , by Lion Brand , by Tahki Stacy Charles , by Cascade Yarns , by Coats & Clark , by Lion Brand , by Tahki Stacy CharlesChi-Chi Shag Workbaskets 1984 whisper-soft pullover is transformedinto a sumptuous shag that shouts sensation!
The contemporary sweater is knit in Tahki StacyCharles textural and irresistibly tony Casca yarn.PROJECT Sage Shag Pullover, by Tahki Stacy Charles SKILL LEVEL: Beginner SIZE Small (Medium, Large) Directions for Small with larger sizes in parentheses. 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s