ask and ye shall receive

* Last post? When I made a comment that at least the bone necklace wasn't in focus and in colour? I SPOKE TOO SOON ...

from McCall's Needlework & Crafts, Fall-Winter 1965-66

"Beads and turkey bones for a cowpuncher necklace. Trim the bone segments with fake pearls, string with wooden beads. Links of orange seed beads, gold beads."

From the same issue that brought you ski masks of doooooom!

* Stay tuned as I finally scan my way through one several stacks of vintage magazines.

vintage embroidery pattern IDs - McCall's and Monarch

McCall's
McCall's patterns come in envelopes that look like their regular sewing ones. The envelopes specify whether the transfers are yellow or blue. 
I don't think they do embroidery patterns any more.
I have 4 different pattern envelopes.

1920s or '30s pattern set - dark blue solid line on brown tissue paper.  
Envelope:

Text on transfer sheet:

Hmm, I don't think I'll continue to do a sample design because, if I'm using this to identify unmarked transfers, knowing what the design looks like all cleaned up doesn't help.

1944 pattern set - yellow solid line on brown tissue paper
Envelope:

Text on transfer sheet:

1952 pattern set - dark blue solid line on brown tissue paper
Envelope:

Text on transfer sheet:

1980s (?) pattern set - yellow solid line on white tissue paper
Envelope:

Text on transfer sheet:

aaaand a bonus transfer that has no envelope!

I googled - it's from a 1957 little girls' nightgown, pajamas and shortie pattern. The phrase "early to bed early to rise" is meant to be embroidered around the yoke of the outfit. Cute!


Monarch
Not much info out there. I just have 1 pattern set. It has a separate piece of paper with instructions and colour suggestions for each towel. They are kind enough to not only put their name on the transfer sheet, but to put M in the pattern number.

1950s (?) - black dotted lines on brown tissue paper
Envelope:

Text on transfer sheet:

According to the back of the envelope, Silver-Tex means that the transfers "will automatically give a white impression on black material and a black impression on white or light-colored materials."

Since the company seems to be out of business, I made these transfers available on my Flickr.

Next time: Simplicity and Superior.