1984
This pretty pottery basket is signed “P. Murray” and dated 1984. I bought it because it had the look of thread crochet. I think Ms. Murray pressed a piece of crochet into the clay before she shaped it into a basket.
Sunnydaze, one of the Ravelry members of Crochet Bouquet Along, is also a potter. She wrote:
I do pottery and I am always trying to imprint my clay with live ferns. It usually works but it needs to be quite deep into the clay as by the time it is fired and glazed, you can’t always see the fern that well. I also can only use one fern at a time as they usually break after one use BUT a crocheted fern in acrylic yarn won’t!!!”
I’m eager to see her crocheted fern pottery!
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1987
Just a few years after I bought the little basket, my future in-laws threw an engagement party for my (now) husband and me. It was a nice thing to do for us, and I knitted my mother-in-law this doily as a thank-you gift.
It is the Azalea pattern from Marianne Kinzel’s First (or Second) Book of Modern Lace Knitting. I don’t have the books here, so I’m not absolutely positive. Both books have beautiful lace patterns for tablecloths, doilies, antimacassars, and so on. It’s made of 100% linen.
I ran across it recently, as we were cleaning out their house. It has come back to me after all this time.