A Stitch In Time

[sakon76]

Reading through my new old issues of Threads is kind of amusing. Back then it wasn't so completely a high-end home sewing publication. There are articles about knitting, crocheting, and quilting as well as about sewing clothes. The individual issues are actually not outdated and pointless; though styles have changed since then, I've already found three or four techniques I want to try. But the entertainment factor is also high. These magazines are from the nineties, you see. Pre-widespread Internet access. None of the ads have websites. And there are tips about using the holed strips at the edge of printer paper as measuring devices. Oh, the nostalgia!

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[spiderlove.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I have some cross stitch magazines like that from the 80s! One of them is all excited about 16-count aida, which had JUST been introduced, apparently. Can you believe how trusting people were, just posting their home addresses in national publications?

[flybystardancer.livejournal.com]

Now I wish I could read them for the entvalue1ment value! (And as sad as it seems, my mom's work has printers that still use the paper with the ho1ed strips!