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Home-Made Toys – presented by The Australian Women’s Weekly

A 52 page PDF containing a range of wooden toys, knitted dolls and animals to make for children during World War II (early 1940s).

Patterns included are:
– Gay and Friendly Elephant
– Jerry Long-Legs doll
– Wendy the WAAAF doll
– Peter the Penguin
– Crocheted Doll’s Furniture
– Terry the Tortoise
– Pronto the Donkey
– Scottie Dog
– Wooden toys, such as a cotton-reel dragon, balancing horse, carts, trains, planes and battle ships
– and much more!

Advertisements from the time are also present, for that taste of life during the forties.

Trigger warning – just a heads up, one of these patterns uses the ‘n’ word when talking about brown.

Please note all my patterns have a faint watermark.