Last week I ordered all these great pattern books from Ivarose.com. For those of you who do not know about this great site you really should! Peggy at Ivarose.com has made it her dedicated passion to reprint antique & vintage needle arts pattern books. I find this work very admirable since she is preserving these old titles. Old paper tends to deteriorate with age. Also many people threw out these old knitting pattern magazines just as we throw out magazines we’ve already read and no longer use today. This makes some titles very rare. It is very possible we’d never get our hands on certain titles. Peggy digitally touches up the images with perfection then prints the copies into a spiral bound binding. This makes for very easy reading when your using the books. You don’t have to worry about bending the spine of an old title back, possibly breaking it.

Her selection of titles is vast. If you can’t find what you want in your own collection or on eBay, you’ll be sure to find endless patterns to lust over. Her collection has inspired me to learn not only knitting but crochet and possibly tatting and embroidery in the future.

Which leads me to tell you I still am completely fickle and undecided about what to knit next. These two IvaRose.com patterns are at the top of my list to do in this cotton/cashmere mixed yarn in color “Lilac Moon”. I guess I’m feeling very girly this spring. Ruffles and lilac seem to go well. I hope everyone doesn’t abandon me before I ever finally decide what to knit!