Special Offer!

Our fabric wash sale continues with a special offer. Forever New is absolutely the best fabric wash for delicate fabrics that I have ever used. It is an all natural, gentle and safe fabric wash that rinses out completely. This is very important for your washable heirlooms.

Special Limited Offer

All of you who buy more than one bottle of Forever New at a time will love this special!

Buy 3 or more bottles of the 32 oz. size Forever New fabric wash and we will give you a Forever New Combo Pack, an $18.00 value, FREE, at no additional cost!

Just sent us a note when you place your order and request the free Forever New Combo Pack. This offer is only good while supplies last.

A Forever New Combo Pack includes an 8 oz. bottle of Forever New fabric wash (perfect to take along when traveling) and a large, high quality lingerie bag for fine washables and lingerie. The Combo Pack also makes a very nice gift for a friend.

This is an unadvertised special offer for our blog readers, it will not be mentioned anywhere else.

For baby's laundry, our hypoallergenic fabric wash, Variance, is also still on sale.

Upcoming Special Announcement!

Very soon, we will be making a special announcement about someone you all know and love. And in celebration of that announcement, we will be giving away several more vintage patterns.

I'm going to try to get into the office on Sunday evening (10/26) to post the announcement and the vintage patterns. So check your email on Sunday evening for the notification. Stay tuned.............

Free Vintage Smocking Pattern!!!

We have another vintage pattern to give away today! Our last free pattern went to South Weber UT.

Today's free pattern is an adorable toddlers smocked dress pattern from the vintage pattern collection donated by Mrs. Jo W. in Orangeburg, S.C.

MCCall's 7842 - Size 6 months

The pattern description on the back says:

Toddlers' Smocked Dress - raglan sleeves and smocked all the way around the neckline in two colors of 6-strand cotton. The little puffed sleeves have a touch of smocking at the lower edge. View A neck and all sleeves are bound with bias self fabric. View B has a narrow yoke and a white or matching collar.

We peaked inside the package and it looks like the smocking dots are still in there! The date on the pattern is 1965.

How to claim this pattern: Send us your name, address and the pattern number (use our contact form for fastest submission). The pattern will go to the first one who notifies us that they want it.

Use this link to notify us that you want this pattern, McCall #7842.

Just a Few Rules - The Free Vintage Patterns are an exclusive offer to our newsletter/blog subscribers only. The free offers will be limited to the USA only. We will mail them to home addresses only, no businesses. Some of the patterns are very old and in fragile condition. They will be distributed "as is". This free offer is for fun, without warranty or guarantees.

Hypo-allergenic Fabric Wash on Sale

Variance, the hypoallergenic, unscented fabric wash by Forever New is on sale now!

This is my first choice for washing baby clothes. It's especially wonderful to use on clothing, crib sheets, blankets, burp clothes or anything that comes into contact with infants and preemies delicate skin.

In addition to being very gentle, it gets the clothes clean! (I use it for my clothes and the sheets and pillowcases.) It's also great for washable heirloom clothing and textiles.

Try it, you will love it.

Special Offer!!!

Two 16 oz. jars for only $16.95!!!

Stock up and save $$$ while it's on sale.

Free Vintage Pattern

A Special Thank You!

We want to send a special thank you to Mrs. Jo W. in Orangeburg, S.C. Jo has generously contributed vintage patterns from her own collection to our vintage pattern giveaway!

You will love them, some are from the '50's and there are even some vintage smocking patterns. Stay tuned because we will start posting them as soon as we get them sorted and scanned.

Thanks again Jo!

Today's Free Vintage Pattern

Simplicity 5080 - Size 3

Child's Pajamas, Nightgown and Cap

The high yoke tops have set-in sleeves and buttons in the back. View 3 has a round collar and long sleeves. The pants have an elastic casing at waistline.

We found another one! Last June, when we gave away Simplicity 5080 (in a larger size), we received a huge response for it. So I'm very pleased to tell you that we found another one of these cute patterns, this one is a Size 3.

Use this link to notify us that you want this pattern, Simplicity 5080.

How to claim this pattern: Send us your name, address and the pattern number (use our contact form for fastest submission). The pattern will go to the first one who notifies us that they want it.

Just a Few Rules - The Free Vintage Patterns are an exclusive offer to our newsletter/blog subscribers only. The free offers will be limited to the USA only. We will mail them to home addresses only, no P.O. Boxes, mail forwarding services or businesses. Some of the patterns are very old and in fragile condition. They will be distributed "as is". This free offer is for fun, without warranty or guarantees.

Australian Smocking & Embroidery - New Issue!

You won't want to miss the latest issue of Australian Smocking & Embroidery, Issue No. 84.

It has lots of beautiful color photos, illustrations, instructions and full size patterns.

This issue is on sale now for only $14.95.

See the current issue for more information.

Also, we do still have some back issues available. Some back issues are becoming very hard to find.

3 New Machine Embroidery CD's

Blue Ribbon Baby by Karen Bosch, is perfect for a crib set or blanket. Great gift idea for a new baby!

There are 34 designs in 4x4 and 7 designs in 5x7. Includes formats for all popular machines.

Paisley Alphabet by Sandy Jenkins is a very elegant monogram collection.

This machine embroidery cd, which is part of the Sew Beautiful Machine Embroidery Collection, includes 26 alphabet designs in 5x7 format. Easy to use installer.

Le Petit Oiseau Bleu (The Little Bluebird) by Wendy Schoen contains pretty, dainty designs, perfect for heirloom baby gowns.

For more information on these and other machine embroidery designs from Martha Pullen, see: Machine Embroidery Designs