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Celebrate Doilies and Texas Crochet Heritage Exhibits at Rockport

by Suzann Thompson | Sep 13, 2026 | Art Quilt, Celebrate Doilies, Doily Adventure, Exhibits & Programs, Quilting and Crafting, Texas Crochet Heritage, TextileFusion

In March and April 2026, Texas Crochet Heritage and Celebrate Doilies were the first exhibits ever in the brand new Aransas County Community Center on N. Live Oak Street in Rockport, Texas. Exciting times! Jennifer Day of the Rockport Cultural Arts District, along...
Introducing the Texas Crochet Heritage Exhibit

Introducing the Texas Crochet Heritage Exhibit

by Suzann Thompson | Jul 13, 2023 | Art Quilt, Crochet, Doily Adventure, Exhibits & Programs, Texas Crochet Heritage, TextileFusion

The Texas Crochet Heritage traveling exhibit is about doily crocheters, doily culture, and doily history, with a little doily art and poetry, for good measure. The exhibit consists of forty-five 16 x 20″ panels featuring photos, maker stories, history, and...

Celebrate Doilies Opening Reception Today

by Suzann Thompson | Jul 22, 2017 | Art Quilt, Celebrate Doilies, Crochet, Doily Adventure, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, Texas Crochet Heritage, TextileFusion

We’re celebrating Celebrate Doilies today, July 22, with an opening reception from noon to 2 p.m. at the Cross Timbers Fine Arts Council, 204 River North Boulevard, in Stephenville, Texas. Just look for the big doilies on the front of the building. The one on...

Crochet Bloggers Spread News of Celebrate Doilies!

by Suzann Thompson | Jun 10, 2017 | Art Quilt, Celebrate Doilies, Crochet, Doily Adventure, Exhibits & Programs, Retro Blog Post, Texas Crochet Heritage, TextileFusion

I am very honored to have the Celebrate Doilies! exhibit featured in two well-known crochet blogs! Please follow the links and read new information and a behind-the-scenes look at Celebrate Doilies! Rachel Choi hosts the popular Crochet Spot blog, where readers can...

Celebrate Doilies Kickstarter Campaign to Launch May 28–Please Donate!

by Suzann Thompson | May 27, 2017 | Art Quilt, Celebrate Doilies, Doily Adventure, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, Texas Crochet Heritage, TextileFusion

Sunday, May 28, at 12:30 p.m. Central Time, I will launch a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to cover the remaining expenses of the Celebrate Doilies! exhibit you’ve been reading about on this blog. Donation levels start at just $5.00, and there are rewards...

Natcromo 2017 Celebrates Doilies

by Suzann Thompson | Mar 25, 2017 | Art Quilt, Celebrate Doilies, Crochet, Doily Adventure, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, Texas Crochet Heritage, TextileFusion

Thank you to Amy and Donna of Crochetville.com for inviting me to join this year’s National Crochet Month blog tour! This is a wonderful thing they do, in addition to providing an internet home for crocheters all year round. Today, the love of crochet ties...

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Wow! This lovely collar* comes with a Certificate Wow! This lovely collar* comes with a Certificate of Authenticity by some supposed authority in the UK, certifying that it is real, authentic Irish crochet. Do you see the problem with this? It goes to show that some claims on Certificates of Authenticity are not true. And that not all people calling themselves experts are what they claim to be. It certainly is beautiful lace, just not Irish Crochet or any other kind of crochet. * It really is a collar, but I wanted you to be able to see the details of its construction. Should have taken a picture of the whole thing. Maybe next time. • #CrochetDetective #NotCrochet #KnowYourLaces
An avalanche is like a landslide, only it is made An avalanche is like a landslide, only it is made of snowflakes instead of mud. That is what this quilt, Snowflakes Create Avalanches, is about. Fellow Snowflakes, let's vote and cause an avalanche for Democracy. More about this quilt at https://textilefusion.com/blog/ #TextileFusion #Vote #Snowflakes
Close! Mostly I used this No. 10 crochet cotton by Close! Mostly I used this No. 10 crochet cotton by the American Thread Company. Definitely vintage. ❤️
Crocheting these vintage bedspread/tablecloth/doil Crocheting these vintage bedspread/tablecloth/doily motifs has been educational. I think they’re beautiful, but I’m -not- tempted to make a bedspread or tablecloth out of any one of them. The square at top right, designed in the 1940s or so by Cecilia Vanek, is from the Puritan Bedspread aka County Clare Bedspread. Free pattern here: https://freevintagecrochet.com/bedspread-patterns/star208/puritan-bedspread-pattern The other three are in 150 Favorite Crochet Designs, Ed. Mary Carolyn Waldrep (Dover), and online sources. #CrochetSquares #BedspreadSquares #VintageCrochet #Motif #Crochet
A year ago I was breathing a bunch of sighs of rel A year ago I was breathing a bunch of sighs of relief, because I had finished an intense crochet design project. I designed, crocheted, wrote patterns, and took step-by-step pictures of a bunch of flowery bookmarks. Most of the ones in the picture made it into a kit published by Quarto. More about this at my blog: https://textilefusion.com/last-year-at-this-time-flowery-crocheted-bookmarks/ or go to link in bio.
The Town ‘n Country Quilt Guild of Stephenville, T The Town ‘n Country Quilt Guild of Stephenville, TX, close at 4 PM today. There’s time, if you live close by, to visit all the quilts and the Country Store, where you can find lots of previously loved items for sale. There was a pretty good stack of doilies yesterday, priced to move. Somebody bought a couple or three, and I don’t know what happened after that. Maybe there are some left. • #TownNCountryQuiltGuild #DoiliesForSale #QuiltShow #StephenvilleTX
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