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Beaded Crocheted Jug Cover with 3-D Teacup
This crocheted jug cover has eighteen deep points around the outside edge. All but two points are weighted with yellow glass beads. It looks like two beads may have broken off; the loops that held them are still there. The center of the cover…
Bicolor snood in red and beige
My mother made this so that I can wear with my colorless midnight navy blue woolen top that looks quite formal with skinny wool pants of white or beige. Adding this around the neck was to make it possible to wear it more casually. The technique is…
Birthday Woodins
This is a set of Woodins, knit from the Woodins pattern by Anna Hrachovec that appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of Knitty. The creator knit it for her niece's second birthday and added felt birthday hats for each creature.
The project consists of a…
Black Eyed Susan Doily
This white crochet doily has bright yellow Black Eyed Susan flower motifs around the outside edge and at the center. Each brown center is padded and raised. The centers have been sewn into the center of each flower. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arch Lamb,…
BLM Yarn Bomb
This knitted yarn bomb hangs inside my front porch window. I designed and made it in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in July of 2020. I used size 13 needles and employed intarsia technique.
I live in a small community 30 miles east of…
Blossoming Into Me, a crocheted mandala part of Mandalas of Transformation Collection
This piece is a crocheted mandala designed and made by textile artist Michelle Beerbower. It was made in 2026 as another piece in her collection “Mandalas of Healing”. The artist used US hook size H-8 and G-6 with mix acrylic/cotton yarn. This piece…
Blue Hand Knitted Ski Sweater
History of Blue Hand-Knitted Ski Sweater Handwritten by Mary Ruth McGinnis (transcribed)
"November 16, 2015
Augusta Adelia Lehner Newman knitted this sweater for her son, Charles Wynn Newman, Jr., when he was a boy. So it was knitted sometime in the…
Burner Pad Covers in Crochet
For a time, probably in the 2010s, I ran across a number of crocheted doilies with a crocheted mesh border on the wrong side. What was -that- about? My mother Anna knew exactly what the mesh-backed doilies were: decorative covers for asbestos hot…
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…
Calm Imperfection part of Mandalas of Transformation
This piece is a crocheted mandala designed and made by textile artist Michelle Beerbower. It was made in 2026 as an additional piece in her collection “Mandalas of Healing”. The artist used US hook size I-9 with cotton yarn. This piece was made as a…
Cameo Butterfly Doily by BellaCrochet
Elizabeth Ann White launched her career as a crochet designer in the late 1980s. She brought a large bag of original designs to the East Texas pattern publishing company, Annie’s Attic. The editors there accepted her designs for publication and asked…
Charles' Knitted Christmas Stocking
Mary Eugenia Thomas was born in 1921 in Electra, Texas. She went by the nickname “Gene.” Gene graduated from high school in Wichita Falls, Texas, and then from North Texas State University with a B. A. in Library Science.
Gene met her future…
Gene met her future…
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…
Christmas Stocking
This Christmas stocking is one of a pair of stockings that Betty Lindsay, my mother-in-law, had knitted for me and my sister-in-law when we joined the family. The pattern is the Victorian Stocking Pattern by Valerie Root, published in Better Homes…
Clark’s O.N.T. Spool Cabinet
My mother, Dorothy Blakley, was an accomplished seamstress who developed a small home-based business in the 1950s sewing for her clients. She preferred alterations over making new clothes from patterns. Some time later, going to garage sales became…
Coin Purse, Accha Alta, Peru
A hand knit coin purse with crochet or looped bobble decorations made in Accha Alta, Peru, a small Andean community located about 2 hours north of Cusco, Peru.
I purchased this coin purse in Cusco in 2017 at the Centro de Textiles Tradicionales del…
Collar and Garniture in Wheels, Roses, and Leaves
Some early 1900s Irish Crochet books, reprinted by House of White Birches in the 1980s, got me hooked on Irish Crochet. They told how to make beautiful and intricate motifs, backgrounds, jabots, garniture, pendants, handbags, doilies and more. The…
Colorful Knitted Slipper Socks for Children
Baumgärtels clothing store on August-Bebel-Strasse in Schwarzenbach an der Saale, Germany, sold ready-made clothing and offered custom knitted garments. The Baumgärtel family lived above the shop. Anna Wirth Thompson fondly remembered a blue dress…
Cotton handkerchief with varigated blue crocheted edge
Christy Lockard crocheted edges for dozens of hankies for her family and friends. For this handkerchief she used a variegated blue thread. Lockard (1894-1982) lived in Middletown, Dauphin County, PA, USA. Most of her crochet work was done between…
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.
Crochet Antimacassar
Crocheted chair back or arm protector. Made by my grandmother probably in the 1940’s. Orgin of pattern is unknown. Cotton crochet thread, steel hook.
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 pattern on Cloth
Before crochet patterns were readily available in print form, ingenious family members would make do with small swatches of cotton fabric from a pillowcase, perhaps, and write the pattern with ballpoint pen for an edging which was attached to the…
Crochet Sample Book
The book is sewn down the middle by hand with ecru thread, then folded in half. There is no cover or binding, suggesting the book was made for personal use. The crochet motifs worked in ecru or white thread are sewn onto pages made of shipping paper…
Crochet Spider Web Collar
A white cotton crochet collar made up of 13 lace scallops, with a small crocheted spider dangling from a chain of stitches on the last scallop. The collar has been tacked onto a basic black sweater, and does not quite reach all the way around to give…