Weldon's Second Series

Weldon's Second Series has "47 Useful Articles for Ladies, Gentlemen, and Children".  

It has clothing for women including several hoods, slippers, shawls and hats. For babies there are multiple slipper/sock/bootie patterns and bibs. For older children there are frocks, hats, slippers and they didn't leave the men out. There are a few hats for them too. There are also several household items in this series like chair covers/antimacassars*, mats, pincushions and four squares "for a quilt". There are even stitch patterns that they call crazy pattern, plum lattice pattern, rice stitch, beehive pattern, herringbone stitch and Point Neige Superbe stitch.

*An antimacassar is a protective covering for chair. It was intended to keep the chair from getting soiled by macassar oil that was used in this era as a conditioner and styler by men. 

Even a pattern for a doll's coat and hat!

Not just a hood, this one has the shawl attached.

Rice stitch and Beehive pattern

Crazy pattern. Seems similar to what we would call corner to corner though they do it across instead.

I was intrigued by the squares for a quilt like the one above so I decided I would make one out of this series. They pop up in later series too so I thought if I make a few throughout the year I can put them together somehow at the end of the year. I don't think I'll have enough to make a blanket but I might get a table runner out of them.

​Next week I'll share the results of the Crochet Square for a Quilt shown above.