Community Collection

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2018.01

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Add to CKC’s Community Collection

CKC invites you to share your treasures in our Community Collection. We built this resource to help you preserve and share the items that are meaningful to you and their stories, and to help you find out more about these items from community members, if you choose, when not much is known about them.

Generally, we are looking for items that are handmade using knitting or crochet. Please follow this link to read what we envisioned you might want to share when we built this resource: Share Your Treasures. You are not limited to what is described there; this resource is for you.

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Collection Items

Knitted cardigan made by Anna Bell Bray, Shetland, UK

Cardigan designed and knitted by Anna Bell Bray, a noted creator of traditional Shetland garments. Mrs. Bray's work is distinguished by her extraordinary use of dark and light values for maximum visual impact, and by the couturier details and…

Baby Layette

This layette set of cap, sweater and booties were made for Marilyn Huset by her mother, Marcelle Huset. The pattern came from the Jack Frost Baby Book Volume 47 published in 1946 with the price of 25¢ printed on the cover. The pattern number is 4701…

Knitted Hat, Scarf, Mittens made by Anna Bell Bray, Shetland UK

An accessory set comprised of pillbox style hat with hexagonal crown, fringed scarf, and mittens, ca. 1998. Designed and knitted by Anna Bell Bray, a noted creator of traditional Shetland garments. Purchased in Shetland, UK by Betty H. Lindsay for…

Handcarved Wooden Romanian spindle from Breb

This handcarved wooden spindle was made by Petru Pop, a traditional woodcarver, in the village of Breb, Romania during a visit to the Maramures region in 2007.

Wooden Romanian spindles

These two antique wooden Romanian spindles were purchased in an antique shop in Brasov, Romania in 2007.

Crochet Bonnet

This is a crochet baby bonnet that my Great Grandmother Mabel Jensen wore as a baby. She was born in 1900. It is unknown who crocheted it, but it is definitely crochet and wool. It is in excellent condition.

Crochet Afghan

This is a crochet afghan made by Mabel Jensen Forsgren. She was born in 1900 and deceased in the 1980's. It is unknown when she crocheted this piece, but in 2018 it remains in excellent condition.

IOOF Banner in Filet Crochet

This filet crochet item, possibly a banner, was made by Charles Etta Dunlap Thompson, with crochet cotton, probably in the 1920s. The letters IOOF stand for International Order of Odd Fellows. Suzie Robertson of the IOOF Sovereign Grand Lodge…

Winterling, a knitted, embellished wall hanging

Winterling is a knitted, quilted wall hanging, embellished with crochet, embroidery, beads, and buttons. It was made by textile artist Suzann Thompson in 2017 for her Celebrate Doilies exhibit. The name Winterling refers to a now-closed chinaware…

Crocheted Bedspread

Double bed size bedspread was crocheted by my grandmother sometime in the 1940s to 1950s. It was made by my grandmother and given to me by my mother. I used it on a guest bed for many years and it is currently stored, since it's not practical for…

Scandinavian Style Hat

My grandmother, Doris Scovill, gave me this hat in the late 1960s or early 1970s. At that time, she worked as a travel agent planning tours to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. On her own travels there, she collected textiles and other decorative…

Child's Crocheted Dress, Made in the Frankenwald

Probably made from a printed pattern, this woolen jumper dress was crocheted in the late 1930s by Gertrud Schoedel Wirth for her young daughter Anna (now Anna Wirth Thompson). She worked most of the dress in the round using single crochet, and…

Calendar Pattern Doily in Heavy Cotton

Anna Wirth (b. 1936) grew up in the village of Sorg in the Franconian Forest of Northern Bavaria, Germany. Some families in the village were weavers by trade, and the entire family would be involved in setting up the loom for a new project. When…

Design Proposal for I-Cord Embellished Sweater

To propose knit/crochet projects for publication, I have made many swatches and sketches since the early 1990s. This one was probably for a publication of Bond America, a company that marketed and sold a hobby knitting machine and a mechanical…

Granny Square Christmas Stockings

These Christmas stockings were crocheted by my mother, Marcelle Huset, and have hung in the dining room windows of our home for many holiday seasons.

Red Cross Sweater for Navy Use

This is a Navy sweater knit by Rebecca Keyel in 2016 from a sweater pattern originally designed by the American Red Cross in the late 1930s. The pattern (designated ARC 400-3) appeared in a Red Cross pattern book issued by the Milwaukee Chapter of…

Set of baby garments in rainbow yarn

This is a set of baby garments, a sweater with buttons and a soaker, made for a newborn baby in 2018.

The yarn is urth uneek worsted. The garments were both knit from a single skein of yarn to make a complete set of clothing.

The set was knit…

Register to Vote quilt with doily "O"

"Registering voters isn't the most visually exciting thing in the world, so I made this quilt to lure people close enough to ask them if they need to register. I had the perfect doily to make the O in VOTE. Yay, doilies!!" wrote maker Suzann Thompson…