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Crochet Top with Apple
The pattern for this single-crochet top, with an apple motif, came from a Woman's Day or Family Circle magazine published in the mid-1970s. I was in high school at the time, and loved the bold design. It was the first time I had crocheted two colors…
Crocheted American Beauty Rose Doily
In the 1980s, a friend loaned me her copy of The American Beauty, No. 17, a crochet pattern book published by Novelty Art Studios, Chicago, IL, in 1919. I photocopied the pattern for the stunning “American Beauty” Cluny lace-inspired centerpiece trim…
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…
Crocheted Donkey from 1980s
Sometime during the 1980s, my husband Alan and I were visiting friends in San Antonio, Texas. We went to a grocery store, and there among the vegetables were ceramic donkeys pulling carts. They were planters. They were very cute and not too…
Crocheted Granny Square Slippers
An 8.5" square makes the bottom of a slipper with two corners sewn together on top; two 4.5" squares are crocheted onto the large square to make the top of the slipper and one 4.5" square is attached at the back to make the heel. A 3" pom pom is…
Crocheted layered floral brooch for summer
Another of my mother’s made brooch consisting of 3 layers of crocheted frilled circles with the top one made into a spiral shape. The back is covered with a cotton cloth and is mounted with a pin.
Crocheted Pineapple Doilies
These two pineapple pattern doilies were likely to have been made by my great-grandmother, Alvina Billig in 1946 or after. The smaller one is slightly tan in color and measures 7 inches across. The larger doily is made in a thicker crochet thread and…
Crocheted Pinwheel Doilies
These two doilies made in a pinwheel design were likely made by my great-grandmother, Alvina Billig, and I'm guessing they date from the 1930s - 1940s. The smaller one is mainly tan with a white border and measures 6.5 inchess across. The larger…
Crocheted rose brooches
My mother used to make hundreds of these rose shaped crocheted brooches in different threads and colors to give as a small gift. The back side is covered with a felt round cut cloth and a pin is mounted.
Crocheted Snowflakes
Some of the designs pictured here are probably by Deborah Atkinson (Ravelry); I learned a lot from studying & making her snowflake patterns. Others in the picture are of my own design. I entered these pictures in CraftStylish's "Dare to Make it:…
Crocheted summer snood and wrist covers
A cotton multicolored snood and wrist covers my mother made for me when I suffered from chronic pneumonia for extra warmth but of sweat absorbing material of cotton. Primitive works but I liked the combinations of colors.
Crocheted Teddy Bears
During a visit to my grandmother's cousin, Clara Schultz-Sierrko, when I was a child, she let me play with a small teddy bear that she had crocheted. I loved it so much that I hated to leave it and Clara gave in to my pleading and let me take it…
Dark blue shaded stole
A friend of mine made this as a gift for me. The thread was mine from somewhere in Tokyo’s Okadaya hobby Shop. A gradation in the thread automatically made the random pattern in the final product.
Darning Eggs
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2 turned wood darning eggs, measuring 6" high and 11" high. Date and maker unknown. Condition: Fair to Good
I inherited these darning eggs from my paternal grandmother more than twenty years ago. She lived in Western Massachusetts…
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…
Dog Blanket with a Mosaic Knit Border
Hannah, Flower, and Annie (not pictured here) were pack mates at the Austin, Texas, home of Charles Frederick and Suzann Thompson beginning in the late 1980s. When Suzann finished knitting a blanket with a mosaic-knit, dog patterned trim, the dogs…
Doily with croched border
A cotton cloth doily with an elaborate needle lace (?) border. Made by Alice Eichelberger Cleland (1864-1938) in Middletown, Dauphin County, PA, USA sometime between 1890 - 1900. Cleland was an excellent and prolific needlewoman, who must have been…
Double-Sided Knit Hot Pad
The double-sided knitting technique was intriguing. I had to try it! Once I figured out how it worked, I designed this hot pad with a house motif. It was knitted with British wool bought in the 1980s from the Nancy Crawford Yarn Shop in Austin,…
Embellished Doll from Charles Gandy Knit Embellishment Class
Class project for Charles Gandy embellishment class. Knit in the round with chunky acrylic yarn, stuffed with fiber fill. Learned a lot about monster style embellishments.
Embroidered dresser scarf with filet crochet border
Dresser scarf embroidered and edged in filet crochet by Alice Eichelberger Cleland (1864-1938) in Middletown, Dauphin County, PA, USA. Probably made between 1890-1910.
Embroidered linen dresser scarf with filet crochet edging
Large dresser scarf made of linen, embroidered with flower basket and butterflies and edged with elaborate filet crochet. Made by Alice E Cleland (1864-1938) in Middletown, Dauphin Co. PA, USA about 1890. I inherited this family piece, made by my…
Fair Isle Hat, TKGA Master Hand Knitting Level 3
Elementary: a Fair Isle hat that was designed and knit for Level 3 of The Knitting Guild Association (TKGA) certification for Master Hand Knitter. The name is for the colors used and the sweaters I wore during Elementary School in the 1970s. The yarn…
Family Black Eyed Susan Doilies
My grandmother Charles Etta Dunlap Thompson (1898-1958) enjoyed crochet, quilting, tatting, and embroidery. Her son and my dad Alan, the youngest of her seven children, marveled at how Charles Etta worked so hard all day and still found energy to do…
Filet crochet antimacassar
An antimacassar for the back of a chair, made in filet crochet by Alice Eichelberger Cleland (1864-1938). She produced an extraordinary amount of fine crochet during her married life. She was born and lived in Middletown, Dauphin County, PA, USA.…
First Knitted Pieces by a Seven Year-Old Girl
My mother, Anna Wirth Thompson (1936- ) learned to knit, crochet, embroider, and sew in school in Germany, where she was born and grew up. She taught me to knit when I was seven years old. I was in Mrs. Stone's second grade class at Edgemere…