While they’ve yellowed significantly and they do have some very subtle mildew spotting on them, they’re completely intact with the exception of some edge wear and a few small edge tears, and it’s obvious that they’ve never been used. The pages are in great shape for their age. There’s no date on the box or the individual pages. The Wonder Package was published by The Detroit News at some point since the advent of iron-on patterns. This portfolio of patterns – they are big, 24″ x 36″ folded pages of iron-on transfer patterns – is called The Wonder Package.Īs you can see, the portfolio contains over 475 decorative initials and over 350 patterns, no two alike! At the end of the article, I’ll share one of the patterns with you as a PDF, so that you can download it and play with it, too! So here’s the pattern portfolio – it’s quite a doozy and there are some really good ones in here that would be fun to interpret into all kinds of different embroidery techniques. So, combine surprise, package, and old embroidery patterns, and hey! I’m in heaven! I love old hand embroidery patterns! Love ’em, love ’em, love ’em!Įver since I got ahold of my first old embroidery pattern portfolio some eons ago, I’ve collected them like a fiend.Īnd apparently Pat, one of our stitching cohorts who follows along here on Needle ‘n Thread, knows this, because she recently sent me a surprise package.
