Vintage Home Arts - Crochet & Knitting Patterns and Cookbooks

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Vintage Knitting and Crochet Patterns

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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 Home Arts - The Company 

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.

Free Dog Sweater Pattern From Vogue 

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.

Join the Fun. Learn how to Knit or Crochet! 

Not just your granny's idea of fun. Young and old love the needle arts!

K
nitting and crocheting are immensely popular today. It's surprising how easy it is to learn.

For an excellent knitting instruction book with lots of free extra bonus features, well worth the price, Click Here!

The younger generation of needlecrafters enjoy this take on learning to knit: Click Here!

Learning to crochet is made simple and fun with this all-inclusive guide. Click Here!

If you're looking for a bargain in strictly vintage and antique crochet, I recommend this two-volume collection featuring over 300 patterns in one place for one price: Click Here!

These step-by-step videos take the mystery out of the process. They're easy to follow and you'll be knitting or crocheting in no time. Plus, you can back up the video at any step and pause it while you get the hang of it. Once you get the basic stitch down, just keep going until you have a scarf, your first project!

How to Knit, How to Crochet Instruction Videos 

Learn how to knit and crochet in just minutes.

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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.

How-To Knit, Threadbanger

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Quickie, How-to Crochet a Flower, Threadbanger

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Vintage Fashion Newreel: "New Look" Fashions 1954

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Specific Lenses on the Vintage Home Arts

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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.
The Vintage Doggy
Haute Dog Couture!
Old Fashioned Candy Making Secrets and Recipes
Rare vintage and antique tips from early experts.
Old Fashioned Cake Baking Secrets and Recipes
Did you know there are only two kinds of cakes?
Make Your Own Prom Wrap or Jacket From Vintage Patterns
My most popular patterns, elegant wraps and jackets.
Vintage Crochet Baby Bonnet Patterns
Today's babies are wearing heirloom crochet caps and bonnets.
Vintage Crochet Lingerie Patterns Make Today's Hottest Fashions
Yesterday's lingerie is today's outer fashion.
Vintage Knitting and Crochet Patterns for Today's Fashions
Make your own unique one-of-a-kind creation from any vintage pattern.
Vintage Crochet Bag and Purse Patterns
Create your own line of designer bags.

How To Knit and Crochet In One Guide 

Learn to Knit or Crochet Step By Step

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Some of my vintage crochet & knitting patterns and cookbooks. 

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.

Pansy Bedspread Motif 

One of my best-selling floral motifs

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

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A real trip back in time: Fifty-two (52) Sunday Dinners! 

Menus and recipes for 52 extra special meals.

For your next special occasion, entertain the old fashioned way. Before the days of TV and soccer games, families spent whole afternoons together anxiously awaiting Sunday Dinner.

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Retro Angora Designer Stole, So Back in Fashion! 

Flirty or elegant, perfect for Prom

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

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Sunny Crocheted Beach Bag and Hat 

So practical and fashionable together.

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

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Doggy gets a sweater, too. 

Ruff!

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

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Best-selling Antique Candy Cookbook - Candy Secrets 

A little gem of a candy making book.

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.

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Baby Angora Kitten Cap 

Everyone loves this little charmer!

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

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Show Off Your Crochet Passion 

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

Crochet Hearts 

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.

A Few More Random CROCHET Patterns Currently Listed on eBay 

Available in printed hard copy or digital PDF download.

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

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Show Off Your Knitting Passion 

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.

A Few More Random KNITTING Patterns Currently Listed on eBay 

Available in printed hard copy or digital PDF download

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

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Please say hi! Whether you love vintage patterns or are just looking in. 

Vintage knitters, crocheters or cooks--or just looking in, I return visits!

I'd love to hear from all my guests and return the courtesy by visiting their lens.

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    model2 model2 Dec 2, 2009 @ 1:17 pm
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    norbridgeantiques norbridgeantiques Feb 17, 2009 @ 9:25 pm
    What a nice lens! Thank you 5*
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    BevsPaper BevsPaper Oct 17, 2008 @ 6:59 am
    Beautiful lens! The old patterns and cookbooks are really pretty cool. I would love for you to submit this lens to my Ephemera and Paper Collectibles Group! Good luck with your website. It takes a lot of work but it pays off in the end.
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    deb_mc deb_mc Oct 14, 2008 @ 2:55 pm
    Love your lens. Knit, crochet I love yarn. Have featured your lens on my A Little Bit Country Decorations lens. Good Job.
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    ocdgirl2000 ocdgirl2000 Oct 12, 2008 @ 9:09 am
    I love your lens!I have tons of patterns and books that I have just collected, but not listed, since I stopped selling on ebay, I've just enrolled in GoAntiques and still have not started to list yet!I have so many I'm overwhelmed!LOL! I just can't not buy them when I see them, they are too cool to pass up!I bet there are tons of us out here who love this stuff! I love your squidoo lens!!Excellent!
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