The Year was 1969

And the pattern book was Modern Needle/Craft No. 55:

Look! Cybill Shepherd! She’s in about a half dozen of the photos:

There are some fairly classic patterns:

And some that are definitely late 60’s:

And there are the ever-practical things, like slippers, padded hangers, and bath mats:

What else happened in 1969? It was a pretty eventful year. Here are a few:

• The first and second manned moon landings, Soviet spaceprobes are sent to Venus, and Soviet cosmonauts transfer between space crafts via a spacewalk
• Richard Nixon becomes president of the United States, Yasser Arafat becomes leader of the PLO, Charles de Gaulle steps down as president of France, Golda Meir becomes the first female prime minister of Israel, Willy Brandt becomes Chancellor of West Germany, the Chappaquiddick incident occurs
• Led Zeppelin releases their first album, Blind Faith gives their first public performance, The Beatles give their last public performance and release “Abbey Road”, John Lennon marries Yoko Ono, Woodstock Festival is held, followed by the Altamont Free Concert
• “Midnight Cowboy” is released, “The Brady Bunch”, “Sesame Street” and “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” first air, PBS is established
• Wal-Mart incorporates, Wendy’s and Long John Silver’s open their first restaurants
• Birth of the Internet and personal computers: the first message is sent over ARPANET, Unix is developed at Bell Labs, and the microprocessor is invented at Intel
• Sharon Tate and friends are murdered by followers of Charles Manson
• The victim of the first confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America dies
• The first temporary artificial heart is implanted, the first human eye transplant is performed, British scientists published proof that they could achieve in vitro fertilization
• The first automatic teller machine is installed
• A huge oil spill occurs in California, which inspires the organization of the first Earth Day in 1970
• The New York “Miracle Mets” win the World Series
• FLQ terrorists bomb the Montreal Stock Exchange, Jan Palach sets himself on fire to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, border clashes occur between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, 300 students take over the Harvard University Administration building, United States National guard helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on anti-war demonstrators in California, civil rights riots in Curacao, civil rights marches in Ireland, a group of Amerindians seizes Alcatraz island for 19 months, and anti-war demonstrations are held across the U.S.
• The secret bombing of Cambodia begins, the first withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, publication of photos from the My Lai massacre, and the first draft lottery in the U.S. since WWII is held in the U.S.