by Suzann Thompson | Feb 16, 2010 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Please join us in making a Fern leaf for February’s Crochet-Along! Readers have adopted the Fern leaf (on pages 110-111) as one of their favorite patterns in Crochet Bouquet. (The other favorite is the Plain Pansy.) The Fern is one of my favorites, too. Once you...
by Suzann Thompson | Jan 13, 2010 | Crochet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Our Irish Crochet Lovers group over at Ravelry is doing an Irish Crochet Doily Crochet-Along through March. We’re mostly working on different doilies, since we have some beginners and some experts and some in-between. I chose a plate doily from a 1911 book...
by Suzann Thompson | Dec 21, 2009 | Crochet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops
My Irish Crochet sample is growing, slowly but surely. I had to redo some sections of the background several times before I was pleased with it. See the pink line in the photo? It shows, more-or-less, the direction of the very simple background mesh I am crocheting...
by Suzann Thompson | Nov 9, 2009 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
For Rounds 4 and 5 of the Poppy in Crochet Bouquet (pp. 65-66), switch to your petal color yarn. I’m using Opus 1 (with aloe and jojoba) by Zitron, and distributed in the US by Skacel. In Round 4, your challenge is to correctly identify the second sl st of each...
by Suzann Thompson | Nov 4, 2009 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
A member of the Crochet Bouquet Along group on Ravelry writes: …I saw a wonderful crocheted flower and had to ask where it was from, turns out to be a pattern of yours and i would love to join this group and make one myself(with help!) x (the flower was a...
by Suzann Thompson | Oct 18, 2009 | Crochet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops
The second day of our Irish Crochet class at the Taos Wool Festival, I waited, seemingly innocently, until everyone left for lunch. Once I was certain they were all gone, I tiptoed around and took pictures of a few of the class samples. At this point, we had sewn our...
