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THE BEST OF
WORKBASKET
® MAGAZINE
VINTAGE to VOGUE
35
Knit and Crochet Classics
Redesigned for Today
©2003 Krause Publications
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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2002105088
ISBN: 0-87349-421-0
Compiled and edited by Deborah Hufford.
Introduction
A great needlecraft magazine joins
premiere yarn companies in
recreating classic fashions
from its last seven decades
When we first approached leading yarn companies with our con-
cept for this book, they were intrigued. We had just purchased sev-
enty years of archives from the world’s once largest needlecraft mag-
azine,
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 world’s 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 mag-
azine in the world. First launched in 1935 during the Depression, it
began as a modest little newsprint pamphlet called, endearingly,
Aunt Martha’s Workbasket.
As its tagline “For Pleasure and Profit”
implied, it provided readers not only leisure but a means to supple-
ment 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 pub-
lication in 1996, it had garnered a modern readership of many mil-
lions, and its end was mourned by generations.
To peruse the pages of
Workbasket
magazine’s 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 fash-
ions 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 that—sur-
prise!—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 dramatically—the
incredible array of textiles offered by today’s 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 companies—
Coats & Clark, Lion Brand, Berroco, Cascade, Tahki Stacy Charles,
and Handy Hands, a leader in tatting—to 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.
We’ve also provided a section of How-to Basics in Knitting,
Crocheting, and Tatting, as well as a Resource section, containing
product information, informative Web sites, and sources for free pat-
terns, all for
your
pleasure! Aunt Martha would be proud...
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
VINTAGE to VOGUE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PROJECTS
Chi-Chi Shag
Sage Shag Pullover,
by Tahki Stacy Charles
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Knit Tee,
by Berroco
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Light & Lofty Duster,
by Coats & Clark.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Mondrian Cardigan,
by Lion Brand
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Ribbed Pullover with Fuzzy Cuffs & Collar,
by Berroco
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Scarlet Shag Shell,
by Tahki Stacy Charles
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Multicolor Bulky Cardigan,
by Cascade
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Granny Squares Cardigan & Shell,
by Lion Brand
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Ivory Turtleneck,
by Cascade Yarns
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Loose-Knit Red Pullover,
by Tahki Stacy Charles
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Button Front Cardigan with Fluff Collar & Cuffs,
by Berroco
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Tatted Choker & Earrings,
by Handy Hands
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Tweed Cardigan,
by Coats & Clark
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Powder Puff Sweater,
by Coats & Clark
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Fringed Triangular Shawl,
by Lion Brand
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Timeless Tee
Divine Duster
Artistic License
Posh Pullover
Ravishing in Red
Magnum Opus
Granny Squares Galore!
Ivory Elegance
Crimson Tide
With All the Trimmings!
Needlework Nouveau
Town & Country Cardigan
Chenille Meets Chanel
Love Triangle

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